CVSS 3.0
7.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-5424
High (7.1). EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- postgresql:postgresql