Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2625

High

Published: 18 August 2022

Published
18 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0097 77.1th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2625 is a high-severity Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes (CWE-915) vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL. This attack requires permission to create non-temporary objects in at least one schema, the ability to lure or wait for an administrator to create or update an affected extension in that schema, and the…

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ability to lure or wait for a victim to use the object targeted in CREATE OR REPLACE or CREATE IF NOT EXISTS. Given all three prerequisites, this flaw allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as the victim role, which may be a superuser.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

postgresql
postgresql
15 · 10.0 — 10.22 · 11.0 — 11.17 · 12.0 — 12.12
fedoraproject
fedora
36
redhat
enterprise linux
6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References