CVE-2016-5424 (GCVE-0-2016-5424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-09 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.
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