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GHSA-5gp7-j4r7-g66f

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed LOW Has CVE

Advisory Details

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.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-5gp7-j4r7-g66f
Published
December 10, 2023 6:30 PM
Last Modified
September 16, 2024 2:37 PM
CVSS Score
2.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 18, 2025 6:25 AM

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