Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2940 - Unspecified vulnerability in Pygresql 3.8.1/4.0
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN pygresql
nessus
Summary
The pygresql module 3.8.1 and 4.0 for Python does not properly support the PQescapeStringConn function, which might allow remote attackers to leverage escaping issues involving multibyte character encodings.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 | |
Application | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1911.NASL description It was discovered that pygresql, a PostgreSQL module for Python, was missing a function to call PQescapeStringConn(). This is needed, because PQescapeStringConn() honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The new function is called pg_escape_string(), which takes the database connection as a first argument. The old function escape_string() has been preserved as well for backwards compatibility. Developers using these bindings are encouraged to adjust their code to use the new function. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44776 published 2010-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44776 title Debian DSA-1911-1 : pygresql - missing escape function code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1911. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(44776); script_version("1.9"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:22"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2940"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1911"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1911-1 : pygresql - missing escape function"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that pygresql, a PostgreSQL module for Python, was missing a function to call PQescapeStringConn(). This is needed, because PQescapeStringConn() honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The new function is called pg_escape_string(), which takes the database connection as a first argument. The old function escape_string() has been preserved as well for backwards compatibility. Developers using these bindings are encouraged to adjust their code to use the new function." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1911" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the pygresql packages. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.8.1-1etch2. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.8.1-3+lenny1." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pygresql"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/10/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/02/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"python-pygresql", reference:"1:3.8.1-1etch2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"python-pygresql", reference:"1:3.8.1-3+lenny1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"python-pygresql-dbg", reference:"1:3.8.1-3+lenny1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-870-1.NASL description Steffen Joeris discovered that PyGreSQL 3.8 did not use PostgreSQL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43108 published 2009-12-11 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43108 title Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : pygresql vulnerability (USN-870-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-870-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(43108); script_version("1.12"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:33:03"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2940"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"870-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : pygresql vulnerability (USN-870-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Steffen Joeris discovered that PyGreSQL 3.8 did not use PostgreSQL's safe string and bytea functions in its own escaping functions. As a result, applications written to use PyGreSQL's escaping functions are vulnerable to SQL injections when processing certain multi-byte character sequences. Because the safe functions require a database connection, to maintain backwards compatibility, pg.escape_string() and pg.escape_bytea() are still available, but applications will have to be adjusted to use the new pyobj.escape_string() and pyobj.escape_bytea() functions. For example, code containing : import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = pg.escape_string(untrusted_input) should be adjusted to use : import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = connection.escape_string(untrusted_input). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/870-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected python-pygresql and / or python-pygresql-dbg packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pygresql"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pygresql-dbg"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/12/10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/12/11"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! ereg(pattern:"^(8\.04|8\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"python-pygresql", pkgver:"1:3.8.1-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"python-pygresql-dbg", pkgver:"3.8.1-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"python-pygresql", pkgver:"1:3.8.1-3ubuntu0.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"python-pygresql-dbg", pkgver:"3.8.1-3ubuntu0.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-pygresql / python-pygresql-dbg"); }