CVE-2013-1899: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 54.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file corruption), and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection request using a database name that begins with a "-" (hyphen).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 10.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only
• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 9.2 only; version 9.2.1 only; version 9.2.2 only; version 9.2.3 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.