CVE-2012-0868: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CRLF injection vulnerability in pg_dump in PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.18, 8.4.x before 8.4.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.7, and 9.1.x before 9.1.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted file containing object names with newlines, which are inserted into an SQL script that is used when the database is restored.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 8.3 only; version 8.3.1 only; version 8.3.2 only; version 8.3.3 only; version 8.3.4 only; version 8.3.5 only; …

Published 2012-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.