Exploit of Significant Flaw in PostgreSQL Enables Unauthorized Access to Alter Environment Variables

A team of cybersecurity experts has revealed an important security loophole within the PostgreSQL open-source database platform.

A team of cybersecurity experts has revealed an important security loophole within the PostgreSQL open-source database platform. This flaw might empower unauthorized users to modify environment variables, thus creating a risk for code execution or exposure of sensitive information.
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-10979, has been assigned a CVSS score of 8.8.
User-defined values, known as environment variables, hold the potential to provide a program

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