SCA: security update for org.postgresql:pgjdbc-aggregate (GHSA-568q-9fw5-28wf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423224

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-568q-9fw5-28wf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423224

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10936

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10936

BID: 105220

cwe: CWE-297