News Document Title: ==================== Critical Postgre SQL issue in chinese Academy of Governance NSA Release Date: ============= 2011-12-06 Laboratory Article: =================== A tunisian researcher of vulnerability-labs discovered a critical prostgre sql issue on the Chinese Academy of Governance NSA. Chokri B.A. alias "Me!ster" discovered this week a nice issue to the china national vulnerability database of information security. The vulnerability has been fixed/patched within 7 days after our security report arrived on the chinese postbox and the coordination process via CNNVD was perfect navigated. The bug was located in a wrong validated server request in the main website. The vulnerability allows an attacker (remote) to infiltrate the vulnerable application database management system of the affected vulnerable website (web-server). Remote Attackers and privileged user accounts can inject/execute (pre-auth) own sql statements to compromise the important and stable government web-server system. Successful exploitation results in dbms and server system compromise, account steal, server take-over and manipulation of webcontent. CNNVD ID: 201111-474 VL ID: 2011-311 Advisory: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=311 Article: http://news.hitb.org/content/critical-postgre-sql-issue-chinese-academy-governance-nsa