CVE-2014-0060: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 does not properly enforce the ADMIN OPTION restriction, which allows remote authenticated members of a role to add or remove arbitrary users to that role by calling the SET ROLE command before the associated GRANT command.

Affected products

  • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: up to and including 8.4.19; version 8.4.1 only; version 8.4.2 only; version 8.4.3 only; version 8.4.4 only; version 8.4.5 only; …

Published 2014-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.