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Vulnerability details: VCID-yyby-4mgu-sbau
Vulnerability ID VCID-yyby-4mgu-sbau
Aliases CVE-2024-10979
Summary Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl allows an unprivileged database user to change sensitive process environment variables (e.g. PATH). That often suffices to enable arbitrary code execution, even if the attacker lacks a database server operating system user. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 are affected.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.9
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting
CWE-610 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere
System Score Found at
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cvssv3.1 8.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10979
cvssv3 8.8 https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
ssvc Track https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-10979.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-10979
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-10979
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/fmora50591/postgresql-env-vuln/blob/main/README.md
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250110-0003/
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-171-165-159-1414-1317-and-1221-released-2955/
https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
1088687 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088687
2326253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326253
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2024-10979 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10979
GLSA-202412-12 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202412-12
RHSA-2024:10593 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10593
RHSA-2024:10595 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10595
RHSA-2024:10677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10677
RHSA-2024:10705 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10705
RHSA-2024:10736 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10736
RHSA-2024:10739 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10739
RHSA-2024:10750 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10750
RHSA-2024:10785 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10785
RHSA-2024:10787 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10787
RHSA-2024:10788 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10788
RHSA-2024:10789 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10789
RHSA-2024:10791 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10791
RHSA-2024:10800 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10800
RHSA-2024:10807 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10807
RHSA-2024:10827 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10827
RHSA-2024:10830 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10830
RHSA-2024:10831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10831
RHSA-2024:10832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10832
RHSA-2024:10846 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10846
RHSA-2024:10851 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10851
RHSA-2024:10879 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10879
RHSA-2024:10882 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10882
USN-7132-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7132-1/
USN-7358-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7358-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-10979.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10979
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-11-14T14:32:36Z/ Found at https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10979/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.10184
EPSS Score 0.00043
Published At Nov. 18, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2024-11-18T16:55:18.713793+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/edge/community.json 34.3.2