CVE-2026-6475

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL. This vulnerability, related to symlink following in pgbasebackup plain format and pgrewind, allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files. By exploiting this, an attacker could potentially hijack the operating system account. This attack has practical...

BIT-POSTGRESQL-2026-6475 PostgreSQL pg_basebackup and pg_rewind can overwrite unrelated files of origin superuser choice

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

PostgreSQL pg_basebackup and pg_rewind can overwrite unrelated files of origin superuser choice

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6475

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

CVE-2026-6475

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

EUVD-2026-30286

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

CVE-2026-6475 PostgreSQL pg_basebackup and pg_rewind can overwrite unrelated files of origin superuser choice

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

CVE-2026-6475

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

CVE-2026-6475

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

CVE-2026-6475

Summary (CVE-2026-6475) : PostgreSQL suffers a symlink-following issue in the pg_basebackup plain format and in pg_rewind. An origin superuser can overwrite local files (for example, /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc), which could later be trusted when the server starts due to features like shared_preloa...

CVE-2026-6475 PostgreSQL pg_basebackup and pg_rewind can overwrite unrelated files of origin superuser choice

Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starting the server after these commands implicitly trusts the orig...

PT-2026-40920

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PostgreSQL versions prior to 18.4 PostgreSQL versions prior to 17.10 PostgreSQL versions prior to 16.14 PostgreSQL versions prior to 15.18 PostgreSQL versions prior to 14.23 Description Symlink following in pg basebackup plain format and in pg...

Vulnerability in client (CVE-2026-6475)

PostgreSQL pgbasebackup and pgrewind can overwrite unrelated files of origin superuser choice Symlink following in PostgreSQL pgbasebackup plain format and in pgrewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It...

Vulnerability in client (CVE-2025-8714)

PostgreSQL pgdump lets superuser of origin server execute arbitrary code in psql client Untrusted data inclusion in pgdump 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...