CVE-2021-23214

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23214
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-23214.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-23214
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-03-04T16:15:08Z
Modified
2025-10-13T10:41:42.072599Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

When the server is configured to use trust authentication with a clientcert requirement or to use cert authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/postgres/postgres

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/postgres/postgres
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

Other

PG95-1_01
REL6_1
REL6_1_1
REL6_2
REL6_2_1
REL6_3
REL6_3_2
REL6_5
REL7_0
REL7_1
REL7_1_BETA
REL7_1_BETA2
REL7_1_BETA3
REL7_2
REL7_2_BETA1
REL7_2_BETA2
REL7_2_BETA3
REL7_2_BETA4
REL7_2_BETA5
REL7_2_RC1
REL7_2_RC2
REL7_4_BETA1
REL7_4_BETA2
REL7_4_BETA3
REL7_4_BETA4
REL7_4_BETA5
REL7_4_RC1
REL8_0_0
REL8_0_0BETA1
REL8_0_0BETA2
REL8_0_0BETA3
REL8_0_0BETA4
REL8_0_0BETA5
REL8_0_0RC1
REL8_0_0RC2
REL8_0_0RC3
REL8_0_0RC4
REL8_0_0RC5
REL8_1_0
REL8_1_0BETA1
REL8_1_0BETA2
REL8_1_0BETA3
REL8_1_0BETA4
REL8_1_0RC1
REL8_2_0
REL8_2_BETA1
REL8_2_BETA2
REL8_2_BETA3
REL8_2_RC1
REL8_3_0
REL8_3_BETA1
REL8_3_BETA2
REL8_3_BETA3
REL8_3_BETA4
REL8_3_RC1
REL8_3_RC2
REL8_4_0
REL8_4_BETA1
REL8_4_BETA2
REL8_4_RC1
REL8_4_RC2
REL9_0_ALPHA5
REL9_0_BETA1
REL9_0_BETA2
REL9_0_BETA3
REL9_1_ALPHA1
REL9_1_ALPHA2
REL9_1_ALPHA3
REL9_1_ALPHA4
REL9_1_ALPHA5
REL9_1_BETA1
REL9_1_BETA2
REL9_2_BETA1
REL9_2_BETA2
REL9_3_BETA1
REL9_4_BETA1
REL9_5_ALPHA1
REL9_6_BETA1
REL9_6_BETA2
REL9_6_BETA3
REL9_6_BETA4
REL_10_BETA1
REL_10_BETA2
REL_10_BETA3
REL_11_BETA1
REL_11_BETA2
REL_12_BETA1
REL_12_BETA2
REL_13_BETA1
REL_14_BETA1
REL_14_BETA2
Release_1_0_2
Release_2_0
Release_2_0_0
release-6-3

Database specific

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