CVE-2021-23222

low-risk
Published 2022-03-02

A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the client's first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.

Do I need to act?

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0.28% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.9/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Postgresql

References (10)

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d83cdfdca...
Patch https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/160c0258802d10b0600d7671b1bbea55d8e1...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
Release Notes https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23222/
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d83cdfdca...
Patch https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/160c0258802d10b0600d7671b1bbea55d8e1...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
Release Notes https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23222/
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low