7.5
HIGH
CVE-2020-25696
PostgreSQL psql Interactive Terminal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description

A flaw was found in the psql interactive terminal of PostgreSQL in versions before 13.1, before 12.5, before 11.10, before 10.15, before 9.6.20 and before 9.5.24. If an interactive psql session uses \gset when querying a compromised server, the attacker can execute arbitrary code as the operating system account running psql. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 23, 2020, 10:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:20 a.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-25696 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 Debian debian_linux
1 Postgresql postgresql
: Total Affected Vendor : 2 | Products : 2
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-2020-25696.

URL Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894430 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-07 Third Party Advisory
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-131-125-1110-1015-9620-and-9524-released-2111/ Release Notes Vendor Advisory

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-25696 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 [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

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

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-270
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Removed CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Removed CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 09, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894430 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894430 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Removed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.5.0 up to (excluding) 9.5.24 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.6.0 up to (excluding) 9.6.20 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 10.0 up to (excluding) 10.15 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.0 up to (excluding) 11.10 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 12.0 up to (excluding) 12.5 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 13.1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.5.0 up to (excluding) 9.5.24 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.6.0 up to (excluding) 9.6.20 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 10.0 up to (excluding) 10.15 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.0 up to (excluding) 11.10 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 12.0 up to (excluding) 12.5 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 13.0 up to (excluding) 13.1
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 07, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894430 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894430 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html Mailing List, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-07 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-07 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-131-125-1110-1015-9620-and-9524-released-2111/ No Types Assigned https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-131-125-1110-1015-9620-and-9524-released-2111/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-697
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.5.0 up to (excluding) 9.5.24 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.6.0 up to (excluding) 9.6.20 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 10.0 up to (excluding) 10.15 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.0 up to (excluding) 11.10 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 12.0 up to (excluding) 12.5 *cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 13.1
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 07, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-07 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 02, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00005.html [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.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-25696 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-2020-25696 weaknesses.

CAPEC-3: Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters CAPEC-43: Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers CAPEC-71: Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-120: Double Encoding Double Encoding CAPEC-3: Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters CAPEC-6: Argument Injection Argument Injection CAPEC-7: Blind SQL Injection Blind SQL Injection CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-15: Command Delimiters Command Delimiters CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-41: Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads CAPEC-43: Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers CAPEC-44: Overflow Binary Resource File Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-52: Embedding NULL Bytes Embedding NULL Bytes CAPEC-53: Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash CAPEC-64: Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-67: String Format Overflow in syslog() String Format Overflow in syslog() CAPEC-71: Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-73: User-Controlled Filename User-Controlled Filename CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-79: Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-80: Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-88: OS Command Injection OS Command Injection CAPEC-92: Forced Integer Overflow Forced Integer Overflow CAPEC-120: Double Encoding Double Encoding CAPEC-182: Flash Injection Flash Injection CAPEC-267: Leverage Alternate Encoding Leverage Alternate Encoding
Exploit Prediction

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

0.40 }} 0.02%

score

0.73978

percentile

CVSS31 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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