CVE-2021-20229

Single-column SELECT privilege enables reading all columns

A user having a SELECT privilege on an individual column can craft a special query that returns all columns of the table.

Additionally, a stored view that uses column-level privileges will have incomplete column-usage bitmaps. In installations that depend on column-level permissions for security, it is recommended to execute CREATE OR REPLACE on all user-defined views to force them to be re-parsed.

The PostgreSQL project thanks Sven Klemm for reporting this problem.

Version Information

Affected Version Fixed In Fix Published
13 13.2 2021-02-11

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CVSS 3.0

Overall Score 3.1
Component core server
Vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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