CVE-2007-6600: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21 uses superuser privileges instead of table owner privileges for (1) VACUUM and (2) ANALYZE operations within index functions, and supports (3) SET ROLE and (4) SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION within index functions, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 7.3 only; version 7.3.1 only; version 7.3.2 only; version 7.3.3 only; version 7.3.4 only; version 7.3.5 only; …

Published 2008-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.