CVE record · CVE-2023-39418

Postgresql: merge fails to enforce update or select row security policies

CVSS 3.1 LowEPSS 0.011 · 65th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 11 Aug 2023, 12:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: postgresql:15 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 8090020231114113548.a75119d5 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Package name: postgresql:15 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 8080020231113134015.63b34585 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: postgresql:15 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 9030020231120082734.rhel9 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Package name: postgresql:15 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 9020020231115020618.rhel9 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: postgresql:10/postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: postgresql:12/postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: postgresql:13/postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Software Collections Package name: rh-postgresql10-postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Software Collections Package name: rh-postgresql12-postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Software Collections Package name: rh-postgresql13-postgresql https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2023-39418
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-1220
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Software Collections
CWE-1220
Published: 11 Aug 2023
Updated: 21 Nov 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
3.1	Low	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.011, the 65th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Aug 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7785 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7883 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7884 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7885 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39418 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228112 issue-trackingredhat
git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=cb2ae5741f2458a474ed3c31458d242e678ff229
www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2023-39418/

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