CVE-2017-16082
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 70.8%Remote Code Execution in pg
Published: 7/24/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
A remote code execution vulnerability was found within the pg module when the remote database or query specifies a specially crafted column name. There are 2 likely scenarios in which one would likely be vulnerable. 1) Executing unsafe, user-supplied sql which contains a malicious column name. 2) Connecting to an untrusted database and executing a query which returns results where any of the column names are malicious.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-postgresfrom 0, < 7.7.1-1
- npm/pgfrom 0, < 2.11.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |