CVE-2020-17446

moderate-risk
Published 2020-08-12

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

Do I need to act?

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2.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 87a4302f26e6194f8a8355fc582c98bfc0f1511a
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Asyncpg

Affected Vendors

Debian Magic

References (4)

Patch https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/releases/tag/v0.21.0
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00002.html
Patch https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/releases/tag/v0.21.0
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00002.html
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 5/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low