Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7485

Title: Postgresql Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7485.

CWE Category CWE-311

Published Date May 12, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7485: In PostgreSQL 9.3.x before 9.3.17, 9.4.x before 9.4.12, 9.5.x before 9.5.7, and 9.6.x before 9.6.3, it was found that the PGREQUIRESSL environment variable was no longer enforcing a SSL/TLS connection to a PostgreSQL server. An active Man-in-the-Middle attacker could use this flaw to strip the SSL/TLS protection from a connection between a client and a server.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3851 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98461 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038476 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1678 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1838 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1746/ http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3851 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98461 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038476 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1678 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1838 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1746/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns