CVE-2017-7484

26

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7484 is a PostgreSQL information disclosure vulnerability affecting versions before 9.2.21, 9.3.17, 9.4.12, 9.5.7, and 9.6.3. An unprivileged attacker can exploit this flaw to steal sensitive data from tables they are not authorized to access, leveraging specific selectivity estimation functions that fail to enforce privilege checks. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, posing a significant confidentiality risk. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the KEV catalog, and community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 9.2.20CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::
		9.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.3:::::::*
		9.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.3.1:::::::*
		9.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.3.2:::::::*
		9.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.3.3:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.56%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

83.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0256 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

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 (23)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: postgresql-0:9.2.21-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-backend-0:2.3.3-53.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-postgresql-server-0:9.5-1.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-setup-postgresql-0:2.3.0-27.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-utils-0:2.3.2-32.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-web-0:2.3.2-35.el6sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-0:2.2-3.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELSFixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.12-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.12-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.12-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql-0:9.5.7-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.12-1.el7

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: rh-postgresql95-postgresql

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: postgresql

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: postgresql84

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: postgresql

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7484Moderate

postgresql: Selectivity estimators bypass SELECT privilege checks

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1677

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1678

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1838

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1983

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2425

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201710-06

postgresql.org / about/news/1746

Vendor Advisory

debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3851

securityfocus.com / bid/98459

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1038476