CVE-2021-20229

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 1.47 % · percentile 74 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-02-23
Updated: 2024-08-03
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL in versions before 13.2. This flaw allows a user with SELECT privilege on one column to craft a special query that returns all columns of the table. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-863

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-7668
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-20229

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2021-AVI-117 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans PostgreSQL · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 13.0 < 13.2
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
PostgreSQL	affected postgresql 13.2, postgresql 12.6, postgresql 11.11, postgresql 10.16, postgresql 9.6.21, postgresql 9.5.25

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
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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