CVE-2026-44477

CVE-2026-44477 affects CloudNativePG prior to 1.29.1 and 1.28.3. The metrics exporter opens a PostgreSQL connection as the superuser and demotes to pg_monitor with SET ROLE, but the session_user remains postgres. Any SQL in the scrape session can call RESET ROLE to recover superuser privileges, t...

Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors in the metrics exporter. An attacker can gain PostgreSQL superuser privileges and execute arbitrary OS commands as the postgres user inside the primary pod by exploiting the ability to plant shadow...

CloudNativePG's metrics exporter allows privilege escalation to PostgreSQL superuser and OS RCE

Impact The CloudNativePG metrics exporter opens its PostgreSQL connection as the postgres superuser via the pod-local Unix socket, then demotes the session with SET ROLE pgmonitor. SET ROLE changes only currentuser; sessionuser remains postgres. That residual superuser identity is the foothold fo...

CLEANSTART-2026-RX06615 SSH clients receiving SSH_AGENT_SUCCESS when expecting a typed response will panic and cause early termination of the client process

Multiple security vulnerabilities affect the cloudnative-pg-fips package. SSH clients receiving SSHAGENTSUCCESS when expecting a typed response will panic and cause early termination of the client process. See references for individual vulnerability details...