CVE-2015-5288: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: up to and including 9.0.22; version 9.1 only; version 9.1.1 only; version 9.1.2 only; version 9.1.3 only; version 9.1.4 only; …

Published 2015-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.