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7.3
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2020-14350
PostgreSQL Sequence Injection Vulnerability
Description

It was found that some PostgreSQL extensions did not use search_path safely in their installation script. An attacker with sufficient privileges could use this flaw to trick an administrator into executing a specially crafted script, during the installation or update of such extension. This affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.4, before 11.9, before 10.14, before 9.6.19, and before 9.5.23.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 5:03 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-14350 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Opensuse leap
1 Postgresql postgresql
: Total Affected Vendor : 4 | Products : 4
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update PostgreSQL packages to mitigate a sequence injection vulnerability.
  • Update PostgreSQL to version 9.5.23, 9.6.19, 10.14, 11.9, or 12.4 or later.
  • Update affected Linux packages.
  • Update the affected packages.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2020-14350 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2020-14350.

URL Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/ Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/ Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-14350 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2020-14350 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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Updated: 5 months, 1 week ago
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Born at : May 25, 2025, 1:14 p.m. This repo has been linked 331 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2020-14350 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-14350 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 24, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/ No Types Assigned https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 18, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200918-0002/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 03, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00008.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 01, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00003.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 01, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4472-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 28, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00043.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00049.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00050.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865746 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-426
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.5 up to (excluding) 9.5.23 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.6 up to (excluding) 9.6.19 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 10.0 up to (excluding) 10.14 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.0 up to (excluding) 11.9 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 12.0 up to (excluding) 12.4
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 27, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-13 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.3
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 4.4
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.03 }} -0.00%

score

0.07594

percentile