GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m

Asyncpg Arbitrary Code Execution Via Access to an Uninitialized Pointer

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2020-17446

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	asyncpg	< 0.21.0	0.21.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17446 advisory
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/commit/69bcdf5bf7696b98ee708be5408fd7d854e910d0 web
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg package
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/releases/tag/v0.21.0 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xpj-f5g2-8p7m advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/asyncpg/PYSEC-2020-24.yaml web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00002.html web