A weakness was found in postgresql-jdbc before version 42.2.5. It was possible to provide an SSL Factory and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the driver. This could lead to a condition where a man-in-the-middle attacker could masquerade as a trusted server by providing a certificate for the wrong host, as long as it was signed by a trusted CA.
The product communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the product does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105220 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1883/ | vendor advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10936 | mitigation third party advisory issue tracking |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E | mailing list |