CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-2313

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in PostgreSQL allows attackers to bypass SQL injection protections by using invalid encodings of multibyte characters. Affected versions include 8.1.x before 8.1.4, 8.0.x before 8.0.8, 7.4.x before 7.4.13, 7.3.x before 7.3.15, and earlier.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this flaw to execute unauthorized SQL queries, potentially leading to data leakage, modification, or deletion in the database.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade PostgreSQL to version 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15, or later, depending on the branch in use.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

PostgreSQL 8.1.x before 8.1.4, 8.0.x before 8.0.8, 7.4.x before 7.4.13, 7.3.x before 7.3.15, and earlier versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass SQL injection protection methods in applications via invalid encodings of multibyte characters, aka one variant of "Encoding-Based SQL Injection."

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