CVE-2018-1115

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.2
EPSS: EPSS 3.83 % · percentile 90 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-05-10
Updated: 2026-10-08
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

postgresql before versions 10.4, 9.6.9 is vulnerable in the adminpack extension, the pg_catalog.pg_logfile_rotate() function doesn't follow the same ACLs than pg_rorate_logfile. If the adminpack is added to a database, an attacker able to connect to it could exploit this to force log rotation.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	redhat
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.4	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-732

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-11759
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1115

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 9.6.9
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.0 < 10.4
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
unspecified · postgresql	affected postegresql 10.4 ; affected postegresql 9.6.9

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD