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GHSA-8wj8-cfxr-9374 json

AWS Advanced NodeJS Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL instance

published 11mo ago modified 9mo ago

cvss
8.0
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### 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 that customers upgrade to the following version: AWS NodeJS Wrapper to v2.0.1.

### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com)

### Affected products & versions: AWS NodeJS Wrapper < 2.0.1.

### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

Patch / fix

  • npm aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper 2.0.1

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper
<2.0.1
2.0.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-470 Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code

References

Sources

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