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Low severity2.2NVD Advisory· Published Dec 10, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-5870

CVE-2023-5870

Description

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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