CVE-2015-3167

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 4.1%

exploitation probability

4.1%top 10% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 uses different error responses when an incorrect key is used, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain the key via a brute force attack.

Affected products

PostgreSQL Global Development Group · PostgreSQL

References

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2621-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3269 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3270 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-20.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-16.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-11.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html