High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables

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  1. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10979, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. Environment variables are user-defined values that can allow a program

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