PT-2022-16482
CVE-2022-24128
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Published
2022-03-13
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Updated
2025-03-04
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.0
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
TimescaleDB versions 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2
Description
The issue allows privilege escalation during extension installation. An unprivileged user can precreate objects using commands like
CREATE which will be used by the installer executing as Superuser. To exploit this, an unprivileged user needs to create objects in a database and then have a Superuser install TimescaleDB into their database.Recommendations
For versions 1.x and 2.x before 2.5.2, update to version 2.5.2 or later to resolve the issue.
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