CVE-2021-23222 (GCVE-0-2021-23222)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:05
VLAI
Summary
A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the client's first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-522 - - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a postgresql Affected: Affects v9.6 to v14
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