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Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 69.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 2.2
References
Products affected by CVE-2023-5870


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