{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3488 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2012-3488 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql, published on 3 Oct 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2012-3488 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2012-3488 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql, published on 3 Oct 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3488 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Postgresql Postgresql. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3488/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3488/index.md)","id":"CVE-2012-3488","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3488/index.md","name":"CVE-2012-3488","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8wqv-9478-cg4h","RHSA-2012:1264"],"analysis":{"component_type":"database","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"PostgreSQL database","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users can exploit XXE in libxslt to read files, modify data, or trigger SSRF in 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n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1399","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2003-01-08"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-3065","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-04-11"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-3280","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-06-19"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"PostgreSQL tsvector and tsquery undersize allocations, via integer wraparound","id":"CVE-2026-14662","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS 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