What is GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m?

GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Asyncpg Arbitrary Code Execution Via Access to an Uninitialized Pointer

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m cover?

GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-17446. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m?

GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m?

GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m affects 1 product, including: pip/asyncpg:\u003c 0.21.0.

GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7mCriticalCVSS 9.8

Asyncpg Arbitrary Code Execution Via Access to an Uninitialized Pointer

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

April 20, 2021

Last Modified

September 12, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-17446 →

📋 Description

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/asyncpg:< 0.21.0

🔗 References (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17446
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/releases/tag/v0.21.0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00002.html
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/commit/69bcdf5bf7696b98ee708be5408fd7d854e910d0
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/asyncpg/PYSEC-2020-24.yaml