vulnerability

PostgreSQL: CVE-2025-8713: PostgreSQL optimizer statistics can expose sampled data within a view, partition, or child table

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 15, 2025
Added
Aug 15, 2025
Modified
Nov 14, 2025

Description

PostgreSQL optimizer statistics allow a user to read sampled data within a view that the user cannot access. Separately, statistics allow a user to read sampled data that a row security policy intended to hide. PostgreSQL maintains statistics for tables by sampling data available in columns; this data is consulted during the query planning process. Prior to this release, a user could craft a leaky operator that bypassed view access control lists (ACLs) and bypassed row security policies in partitioning or table inheritance hierarchies. Reachable statistics data notably included histograms and most-common-values lists. CVE-2017-7484 and CVE-2019-10130 intended to close this class of vulnerability, but this gap remained. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected.

Solutions

postgres-upgrade-14_19postgres-upgrade-15_14postgres-upgrade-16_10postgres-upgrade-17_6
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