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CVE-2023-5870

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5870

CGA ID

CGA-22wr-gxqp-qjmx

Severity

Unknown

Description

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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