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Alpine: postgresql: security update to 11.1-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406460

Description

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

 - postgresql before versions 11.1, 10.6 is vulnerable to a to SQL injection in pg_upgrade and pg_dump via
 CREATE TRIGGER ... REFERENCING. Using a purpose-crafted trigger definition, an attacker can cause
 arbitrary SQL statements to run, with superuser privileges. (CVE-2018-16850)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16850

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406460

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16850

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16850

BID: 105923

IAVB: 2018-B-0148-S