Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-12817: Medium priority package update for postgresql17 (Multiple Advisories)

Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS command allows a table owner to achieve denial of service against other CREATE STATISTICS users by creating in any schema. A later CREATE STATISTICS for the same name, from a user having the CREATE privilege, would then fail. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 are affected.
A vulnerability has been identified in PostgreSQL’s CREATE STATISTICS command where the database does not check that the user has the required schema CREATE privilege. A table owner user could create a statistics object in any schema, blocking other users who legitimately hold CREATE STATISTICS permissions from creating objects with the same name. This results in a denial-of-service of the statistics creation functionality.