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CVE-2009-0922

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0922 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting PostgreSQL versions prior to 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25. Authenticated remote attackers can exploit this by triggering a stack consumption and crash through mismatched encoding conversion requests for localized error messages. With a CVSS score of 4.0, this vulnerability is of moderate severity, requiring authentication (Au:S) and leading to a denial of service (A:P) via a network attack (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L). While not on the KEV catalog or actively exploited, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.4.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:7.4.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.2.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:8.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32849 · Mar 11, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1024 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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 4Fixed in: postgresql-0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: postgresql-0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0922Low

postgresql: potential DoS due to conversion functions

Feb 27, 2009

References

archives.postgresql.org / pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php
Exploit
archives.postgresql.org / /pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php
Exploit
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/34453
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35100
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4
postgresql.org / about/news.1065
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34090
ExploitPatch
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0767
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1316
PatchVendor Advisory