A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5870 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247170 cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-12-10T17:58:30.213Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T19:25:52.585Z

Reserved: 2023-10-31T03:56:58.366Z

Link: CVE-2023-5870

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T19:25:52.585Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-10T18:15:07.643

Modified: 2025-11-04T20:17:14.013

Link: CVE-2023-5870

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-11-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-5870 - Bugzilla