The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5619 advisory.

    PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: postgresql (9.6.20).

    Security Fix(es):

    * postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)

    * postgresql: Multiple features escape security restricted operation sandbox (CVE-2020-25695)

    * postgresql: TYPE in pg_temp executes arbitrary SQL during SECURITY DEFINER execution (CVE-2019-10208)

    * postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION (CVE-2020-14350)

    * postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)

    * postgresql: Selectivity estimators bypass row security policies (CVE-2019-10130)

    * postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks (CVE-2020-1720)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : postgresql:9.6 (RHSA-2020:5619)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144395

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Version 1.12 Nov 7, 2024, 8:52 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070852
Version 1.11 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.10 Jun 3, 2024, 7:01 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202406031901
Version 1.9 May 25, 2023, 5:09 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251709
Version 1.8 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912