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Network

PostgreSQL COPY FROM PROGRAM Command Execution (CVE-2019-9193)

PostgreSQL 10.7 with the superuser postgres / postgres, where COPY ... FROM PROGRAM (CVE-2019-9193, disputed as a feature) runs a shell command as the database server user and reads its output into a table.

Not startedDockercommit 5f28d37x86_64 · aarch64Secret

Objective

Log in to PostgreSQL and use COPY FROM PROGRAM (CVE-2019-9193) to run commands and get a shell.

The brief for this lab lives in its repository.

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Open it in the Cyber CTF launcher, or run it yourself with Docker Compose.

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›Run it manually

$git clone https://github.com/CyberCTF/vulhub-postgres-cve-2019-9193 && cd vulhub-postgres-cve-2019-9193 && docker compose up -d

Without the launcher, the lab uses its public development evidence: great for practice, but it won't complete the lab.

Details

Category: Network
Difficulty: Medium
Evidence: Secret
Runtime: Docker
Runs on: x86_64, aarch64
Commit: 5f28d37
Repository: CyberCTF/vulhub-postgres-cve-2019-9193