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CVE-2007-3279

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3279 describes a critical vulnerability in PostgreSQL 8.1 and potentially later versions, where the PL/pgSQL language, upon creation, grants excessive privileges to the PUBLIC domain. This allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create and execute functions, enabling actions such as local brute-force password guessing. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability carries the highest severity, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0261 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3279

Functions in PL/pgSQL language can be used to brute force passwords

References

osvdb.org / 40900
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/35144
leidecker.info / pgshell/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.txt
mandriva.com / security/advisories
portcullis.co.uk / uplds/whitepapers/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.pdf
securityfocus.com / archive/1/471541/100/0/threaded