Privilege Escalation via Mishandled Characters in PostgreSQL

CVE-2016-5424 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.

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