Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2655

Title: Postgresql Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2655.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jul 18, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2655: PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8, and 9.1.x before 9.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) by adding the (1) SECURITY DEFINER or (2) SET attributes to a procedural language's call handler.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082258.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082292.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082294.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00102.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00024.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1037.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50718 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2491 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:092 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082258.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082292.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082294.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00102.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00024.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1037.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50718 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2491 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:092 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2655 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 18, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.