Bug 1260567 (CVE-2015-6817) - CVE-2015-6817 pgbouncer: failed auth_query lookup leads to connection as auth_user
Summary: CVE-2015-6817 pgbouncer: failed auth_query lookup leads to connection as auth...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-6817
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2015-09-07 09:27 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:57 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: pgbouncer 1.6.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-09-07 09:28:10 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-09-07 09:27:18 UTC
The following flaw was found in PgBouncer:

New auth_user functionality introduced in 1.6 allows login as auth_user when client presents unknown username. It’s quite likely auth_user is superuser. Affects only setups that have enabled auth_user in their config.

Upstream issue:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.pgbouncer.general/1251

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/commit/7ca3e5279d05fceb1e8a043c6f5b6f58dea3ed38

External References:

https://pgbouncer.github.io/2015/09/pgbouncer-1-6-1/

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-07 09:28:10 UTC
The auth_user functionality was introduced in version 1.6. Fedora ships versions 1.5.x and is thus not affected.


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