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CRITICAL POSTGRESQL BUG TIED TO ZERO-DAY ATTACK ON US TREASURY

theregister.com3 min read

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A critical SQL injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL, working alongside a BeyondTrust zero-day, was essential to the December US Treasury breach. The bug affects all PostgreSQL versions but requires complex exploitation, which is why it may have caught the Treasury's security team by surprise.