CVE-2014-8161

postgresql: information leak through constraint violation errors

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 5, 2015

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the wathe PostgreSQL database server handled certain error messages. An authenticated database user could possibly obtain the results of a query they did not have privileges to execute by observing the constraint violation error messages produced when the query was executed.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-209 · Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information