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    CVE-2023-5870

    A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.

    Published:Nov 9, 2023
    Last Modified:Mar 2, 2026
    EPS:Dec 10, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00795
    CVSS Score:2.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Postgresql
    Product
    Postgresql
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Advanced Cluster Security
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Codeready Linux Builder Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Codeready Linux Builder Eus For Power Little Endian Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Codeready Linux Builder For Arm64 Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Codeready Linux Builder For Ibm Z Systems Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Codeready Linux Builder For Power Little Endian Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Arm 64
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Aus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Tus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Aus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel E4s
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Software Collections
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Tus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Software Collections

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High