{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8806 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2017-8806 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql, published on 13 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-8806 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-8806 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql, published on 13 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8806 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-2017-8806/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8806/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-8806","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8806/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-8806","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8806","DLA-1169-1","DSA-4029-1","ECHO-4017-b212-426e","GHSA-xg92-g8h7-v7r4","MINI-5c2r-7pwm-h7pv","MINI-73hf-wg76-95v3","MINI-m385-pqr3-2x46","MINI-q3j7-g872-7jvx","MINI-v273-43fp-fvxh","MINI-wpjc-3rh3-h3h5","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8806"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Debian PostgreSQL scripts","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via insecure symlink handling in Debian PostgreSQL management scripts, causing denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"debian","cpe":[{"product":"postgresql","vendor":"postgresql"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in PostgreSQL-related scripts that are specific to Debian and Ubuntu","id":"CVE-2017-8806","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"postgresql:postgresql","products":["postgresql:postgresql"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Varnish HTTP Cache 4.1.x before 4.1.9 and 5.x before 5.2.1","id":"CVE-2017-8807"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in Debian ftpsync before 20171017","id":"CVE-2017-8805"},"products":["PostgreSQL-related scripts that are specific to Debian and Ubuntu"],"published":"2017-11-13","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-1902","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-04-04"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-1903","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-04-04"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-3279","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-06-19"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Integer overflow in 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":"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 (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via insecure symlink handling in Debian PostgreSQL management scripts, causing denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8806/"}