Headline
GHSA-7xw4-g7mm-r4hh: Amazon Web Services Advanced JDBC Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL instance
Description of Vulnerability:
An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users.
AWS recommends for customers to upgrade to the following versions: AWS JDBC Wrapper to v2.6.5 or greater.
Source of Vulnerability Report:
Allistair Ishmael Hakim allistair.hakim@gmail.com
Affected products & versions:
AWS JDBC Wrapper < 2.6.5
Platforms:
MacOS/Windows/Linux
Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.