CVE-2024-10977: PostgreSQL

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Client use of server error message in PostgreSQL allows a server not trusted under current SSL or GSS settings to furnish arbitrary non-NUL bytes to the libpq application. For example, a man-in-the-middle attacker could send a long error message that a human or screen-scraper user of psql mistakes for valid query results. This is probably not a concern for clients where the user interface unambiguously indicates the boundary between one error message and other text. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 are affected.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: from 12.0, before 12.21 (fixed in 12.21); from 13.0, before 13.17 (fixed in 13.17); from 14.0, before 14.14 (fixed in 14.14); from 15.0, before 15.9 (fixed in 15.9); from 16.0, before 16.5 (fixed in 16.5); version 17.0 only

Published 2024-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.