CVE-2018-10915
A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between…
- 8.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq was used with "host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side connection security features, obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause other impact through SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to malfunction. Postgresql versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 are affected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Affected products
PostgreSQL Global Development Group · postgresql
- affected 10.5
- affected 9.6.10
- affected 9.5.14
- affected 9.4.19
- affected 9.3.24
References
References17
- GLSA-201810-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2729 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4269 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2643 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2721 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2511 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3744-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180815 [SECURITY] [DLA 1464-1] postgresql-9.4 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2565 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10915 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3816 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 105054 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1878/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2557 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1041446 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1227 (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-2018-2970 (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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