CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-23214
High (8.1). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
When the server is configured to use trust authentication with a clientcert requirement or to use cert authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-89
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- postgresql:postgresql
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:software_collections
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022666
- https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951
- https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/28e24125541545483093819efae9bca603441951
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
- https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23214/