Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:23210Privilege Escalation
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
72.7%
postgresql is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists as an authenticated attacker could use dblink to possibly escalate privileges on systems with “trust” or “ident” authentication configured. Please note that dblink functionality is not enabled by default, and can only by enabled by a database administrator on systems with the postgresql-contrib package installed.
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