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CVE-2006-2314

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2314 describes an encoding-based SQL injection vulnerability affecting PostgreSQL versions 8.1.x before 8.1.4, 8.0.x before 8.0.8, 7.4.x before 7.4.13, and 7.3.x before 7.3.15. This flaw allows attackers to bypass SQL injection protection in applications using specific multibyte encodings (e.g., SJIS, BIG5) where the backslash character (0x5c) can be misinterpreted. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing for potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0279 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: rh-postgresql-0:7.3.15-2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: postgresql-0:7.4.13-2.RHEL4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-2314Important

security flaw

May 23, 2005

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc
archives.postgresql.org / pgsql-announce/2006-05/msg00010.php
Patch
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0002.html
secunia.com / advisories/20231
secunia.com / advisories/20232
secunia.com / advisories/20314
secunia.com / advisories/20435
secunia.com / advisories/20451
secunia.com / advisories/20503
secunia.com / advisories/20555
secunia.com / advisories/20653
secunia.com / advisories/20782
secunia.com / advisories/21001
secunia.com / advisories/21749
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200607-04.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26627
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26628
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9947
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-113.htm
usn.ubuntu.com / 288-1
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1087
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html
osvdb.org / 25731
postgresql.org / docs/techdocs.50
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0526.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/435038/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/435161/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/18092
trustix.org / errata/2006/0032
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-288-2
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-288-3
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1941