CVE-2021-38140

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38140
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-38140.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-38140
Published
2021-08-10T18:15:07.263Z
Modified
2026-07-09T01:25:54.868641Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The setuser extension module before 2.0.1 for PostgreSQL allows a potential privilege escalation using RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION after setuser().

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pgaudit/set_user

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pgaudit/set_user
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
7ae26e582ac81ba520417daeca43cd43efccb33e
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:set_user_project:set_user:*:*:*:*:*:postgresql:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.0.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
REL1_0_0
REL1_0_1
REL1_1_0
REL1_2_0
REL1_3_0
REL1_4_0
REL1_5_0
REL1_6_0
REL1_6_1
REL1_6_2
REL1_6_2-rc
REL2_0_0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-38140.json"