GHSA-xg92-g8h7-v7r4

GHSA-xg92-g8h7-v7r4 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
postgresql-13	Wolfi	13.23-r2
postgresql-13	Chainguard	13.23-r2
postgresql-14-bitnami-compat	Chainguard	14.17-r0
postgresql-13-bitnami-compat	Chainguard	13.20-r0
postgresql-14	Chainguard	14.24-r2, 14.20-r2
postgresql-18	Chainguard	18.1-r0
postgresql-18	Wolfi	18.1-r0
postgresql-14	Wolfi	14.24-r2, 14.20-r2

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
wolfi	postgresql-13	0
chainguard	postgresql-12	*
wolfi	postgresql-15	*
chainguard	postgresql-13	0
wolfi	postgresql-11	*
chainguard	postgresql-14-bitnami-compat	0
chainguard	postgresql-13-bitnami-compat	0
wolfi	postgresql-16	*
chainguard	postgresql-14	0, 0
chainguard	neon	*
wolfi	postgresql-17	*
chainguard	postgresql-11	*
wolfi	postgresql-12	*
chainguard	postgresql-18	0
chainguard	postgresql-17	*
wolfi	neon	*
chainguard	postgresql-15	*
wolfi	postgresql-18	0
wolfi	postgresql-14	0, 0
chainguard	postgresql-16	*

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)

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