Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5424

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-09 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:00:59
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.