National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3489
Original release date:10/03/2012
Last revised:10/13/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The xml_parse function in the libxml2 support in the core server component in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 allows remote authenticated users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or URLs, and possibly obtain file or URL content that triggers a parsing error, via an XML value that refers to (1) a DTD or (2) an entity, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849173
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-5.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-9.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-13.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-20.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1407/
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1299