CVE-2018-1115

Publication date 10 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

postgresql before versions 10.4, 9.6.9 is vulnerable in the adminpack extension, the pg_catalog.pg_logfile_rotate() function doesn't follow the same ACLs than pg_rorate_logfile. If the adminpack is added to a database, an attacker able to connect to it could exploit this to force log rotation.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
postgresql-10	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 10.4-0ubuntu0.18.04
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
postgresql-9.1	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
postgresql-9.3	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
postgresql-9.5	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
postgresql-9.6	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

9.6 and 10 only

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H