CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1409

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in PostgreSQL versions 7.3.x through 8.0.x grants public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, allowing unprivileged users to call these functions with malicious values, with unknown impact.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential exploitation by unauthorized users to perform unwanted operations on the database, possibly compromising data integrity or confidentiality.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade PostgreSQL to a version that removes public EXECUTE access to character conversion functions, or manually revoke these privileges from unprivileged users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS