CVE-2021-3393

Partition constraint violation errors leak values of denied columns

A user having an UPDATE privilege on a partitioned table but lacking the SELECT privilege on some column may be able to acquire denied-column values from an error message. This is similar to CVE-2014-8161, but the conditions to exploit are more rare.

The PostgreSQL project thanks Heikki Linnakangas for reporting this problem.

Version Information

Affected Version Fixed In Fix Published
13 13.2 2021-02-11
12 12.6 2021-02-11
11 11.11 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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