CVE-2018-10925
It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 failed to properly check authorization on…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
It was discovered that PostgreSQL versions before 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, and 9.3.24 failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.
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 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
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
References12
- GLSA-201810-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-4269 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 105052 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10925 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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
- RHSA-2018:3816 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1878/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2018-2979 (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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