Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7548

Title: Postgresql Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7548.

CWE Category CWE-862

Published Date Aug 16, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7548: PostgreSQL versions before 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers with no privileges on a large object to overwrite the entire contents of the object, resulting in a denial of service.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100276 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039142 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2678 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/ http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3935 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3936 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100276 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039142 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2678 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-06 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns