CVE-2005-1409: PostgreSQL

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 7.2.1 only; version 7.2.2 only; version 7.2.3 only; version 7.2.4 only; version 7.2.5 only; version 7.2.6 only; …

Published 2005-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.