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CVE-2018-16203
PgpoolAdmin 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass the login authentication and obtain the administrative privilege of the…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
PgpoolAdmin 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass the login authentication and obtain the administrative privilege of the PostgreSQL database via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 4 months later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
PgPool Global Development Group · PgpoolAdmin
- affected 4.0 and earlier
References
2
- https://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- JVN#13199224 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_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-2018-8055 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-16203)Record last updated .