Bug 2165111 (CVE-2023-22332)

Summary: CVE-2023-22332 postgresql-pgpool-II: information disclosure via the "SHOW POOL STATUS" command
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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Bug Depends On: 2165113, 2165115, 2165112, 2165114    
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-01-27 17:44:39 UTC 
An information disclosure vulnerability was found in Pgpool-II. The password of "wd_lifecheck_user" is exposed by "SHOW POOL STATUS" command.

Note that the following conditions are required for this vulnerability be exploitable:

* Version 3.3 or later
* Watchdog function is enabled (use_watchdog = on)
* "query mode" is used for the alive monitoring of watchdog (wd_lifecheck_method = 'query')
* Plain text password is set for wd_lifecheck_password

References:
https://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-442-435-4212-4115-and-4022-released-2578/
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN72418815/
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-01-27 17:45:11 UTC 
Created postgresql-pgpool-II tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2165113]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2165112]


Created postgresql:11/postgresql-pgpool-II tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2165115]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2165114]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-01-30 04:22:25 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.