CVE-2005-1409

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200505-12

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

PostgreSQL gives public EXECUTE access to a number of character conversion routines, but doesn't validate the given arguments (CVE-2005-1409). It has also been reported that the contrib/tsearch2 module of PostgreSQL misdeclares the return value of some functions as internal (CVE-2005-1410). Versions less than 8.0.2-r1 are affected.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-05-03 CVE Reserved
2005-05-03 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (11)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13476	Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0453	Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10050	Signature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A676	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php	2018-10-19
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315	2018-10-19

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html	2018-10-19
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-433.html	2018-10-19
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426302/30/6680/threaded	2018-10-19
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-1409	2005-06-01
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617632	2005-06-01

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.1 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.1"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.2 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.2"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.3 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.3"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.4 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.4"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.5 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.5"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.6 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.6"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.2.7 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.2.7"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.1 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.1"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.2 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.2"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.3 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.3"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.4 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.4"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.5 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.5"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.6 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.6"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.7 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.7"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.8 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.8"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.3.9 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.3.9"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.1 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.1"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.2 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.2"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.3 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.3"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.4 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.4"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.5 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.5"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.6 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.6"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				7.4.7 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "7.4.7"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				8.0 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "8.0"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				8.0.1 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "8.0.1"		-		Affected
Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql"		Postgresql Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql"				8.0.2 Search vendor "Postgresql" for product "Postgresql" and version "8.0.2"		-		Affected