vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7741-1 (CVE-2025-8713): PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Aug 14, 2025 | Sep 9, 2025 | Sep 16, 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
References
- CVE-2025-8713
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-8713
- CWE-1230
- UBUNTU-USN-7741-1
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7741-1
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8713
- URL-https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-176-1610-1514-1419-1322-and-18-beta-3-released-3118/
- URL-https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-8713/
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