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CVE-2005-1409
PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:676 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:433 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FLSA-2006:157366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2005-0453 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 13476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [pgsql-announce] 20050502 IMPORTANT: two new PostgreSQL security problems found (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10050 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-1412 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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