CVE-2021-23214
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.19%postgresql-11 - security update
Published: 3/4/2022Modified: 3/9/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (9)
- Alpine/postgresqlfrom 0, < 12.9-r0
- Alpine/postgresql13from 0, < 13.5-r0
- Alpine/postgresql14from 0, < 14.1-r0
- Alpine/postgresql15from 0, < 14.1-r0
- Bitnami/postgresqlfrom 0, < 9.6.24, >= 10.0.0, < 10.19.0, >= 11.0.0, < 11.14.0, >= 12.0.0, < 12.9.0, >= 13.0.0, < 13.5.0, >= 14.0.0, < 14.0.1
- Debian/postgresql-11from 0, < 11.14-0+deb10u1
- Debian/postgresql-13from 0, < 13.5-0+deb11u1
- Debian/postgresql-13from 0, < 13.5-0+deb11u1
- Debian/postgresql-9.6from 0, < 9.6.24-0+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-23214
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23214
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022666
- WEBhttps://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951
- WEBhttps://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951
- WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23214
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
- WEBhttps://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23214/