CVE-2025-8714 (GCVE-0-2025-8714)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-14 13:00 – Updated: 2025-08-15 03:55
VLAI?
Title
PostgreSQL pg_dump lets superuser of origin server execute arbitrary code in psql client
Summary
Untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a malicious superuser of the origin server to inject arbitrary code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql meta-commands. pg_dumpall is also affected. pg_restore is affected when used to generate a plain-format dump. This is similar to MySQL CVE-2024-21096. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a PostgreSQL Affected: 17 , < 17.6 (rpm)
Affected: 16 , < 16.10 (rpm)
Affected: 15 , < 15.14 (rpm)
Affected: 14 , < 14.19 (rpm)
Affected: 0 , < 13.22 (rpm)
Credits
The PostgreSQL project thanks Martin Rakhmanov, Matthieu Denais, and RyotaK for reporting this problem.
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