PostgreSQL -- PL/Perl environment variable changes execute arbitrary code

2024-11-14 · CVE-2024-10979 · VuXML entry

PostgreSQL project reports: Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl allows an unprivileged database user to change sensitive process environment variables (e.g. PATH). That often suffices to enable arbitrary code execution, even if the attacker lacks a database server operating system user.

Affected versions

• postgresql17-plperl < 17.1
• postgresql16-plperl < 16.5
• postgresql15-plperl < 15.9
• postgresql14-plperl < 14.14
• postgresql13-plperl < 13.17
• postgresql12-plperl < 12.21

By system

0 still vulnerable, 8 fixed. Where VuXML applies (FreeBSD, DragonFly, FreeBSD's derivatives) a port is vulnerable while its version is in a range; pkgsrc says itself whether it lists a CVE of this advisory; OpenBSD and MidnightBSD keep no list this site reads, so their row is only an estimate: FreeBSD's ranges applied to upstream's version.