A weakness was found in postgresql-jdbc before version 42.2.5. It was possible to provide an SSL Factory and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the driver. This could lead to a condition where a man-in-the-middle attacker could masquerade as a trusted server by providing a certificate for the wrong host, as long as it was signed by a trusted CA.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A weakness was found in postgresql-jdbc before version 42.2.5. It was possible to provide an SSL Factory
    and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the driver. This could lead to a
    condition where a man-in-the-middle attacker could masquerade as a trusted server by providing a
    certificate for the wrong host, as long as it was signed by a trusted CA. (CVE-2018-10936)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A weakness was found in postgresql-jdbc before version 42.2.5. It was possible to provide an SSL Factory     and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the driver. This could lead to a     condition where a man-in-the-middle attacker could masquerade as a trusted server by providing a     certificate for the wrong host, as long as it was signed by a trusted CA. (CVE-2018-10936)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

new upstream version, to fix CVE-2018-10936

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
423224	SCA: security update for org.postgresql:pgjdbc-aggregate (GHSA-568q-9fw5-28wf)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
423224	SCA: security update for org.postgresql:pgjdbc-aggregate (GHSA-568q-9fw5-28wf)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
222230	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-10936	Nessus	Misc.	high
122798	Fedora 29 : postgresql-jdbc (2019-7d0d59764e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
122795	Fedora 28 : postgresql-jdbc (2019-1b9e80874d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-10936

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high

high