CVE-2010-1170: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The PL/Tcl implementation in PostgreSQL 7.4 before 7.4.29, 8.0 before 8.0.25, 8.1 before 8.1.21, 8.2 before 8.2.17, 8.3 before 8.3.11, 8.4 before 8.4.4, and 9.0 Beta before 9.0 Beta 2 loads Tcl code from the pltcl_modules table regardless of the table's ownership and permissions, which allows remote authenticated users, with database-creation privileges, to execute arbitrary Tcl code by creating this table and inserting a crafted Tcl script.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 7.4 only; version 7.4.1 only; version 7.4.2 only; version 7.4.3 only; version 7.4.4 only; version 7.4.5 only; …

Published 2010-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.