Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql:15 security update

An update for the postgresql:15 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind

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...

postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind

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...

postgresql:15 security update

An update is available for postgres-decoderbufs, module.postgres-decoderbufs, postgresql, module.pgaudit, module.pgrepack, pgaudit, pgrepack, module.postgresql. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

ALSA-2026:27741 Important: postgresql security update

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. Security Fixes: postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pgbasebackup and pgrewind CVE-2026-6475 postgresql: PostgreSQL libpq: Buffer overflow allows server superuser to overwrite...

RHEL 10 : postgresql16 (RHSA-2026:27718)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:27718 advisory. PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBMS. The base postgresql package contains the client programs that...

postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind

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...

postgresql: PostgreSQL: Operating system account hijack via symlink following in pg_basebackup and pg_rewind

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...

Amazon Linux 2 : postgresql, --advisory ALAS2POSTGRESQL14-2026-024 (ALASPOSTGRESQL14-2026-024)

The version of postgresql installed on the remote host is prior to 14.23-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2POSTGRESQL14-2026-024 advisory. Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE TYPE allows an object creator to hijack other queries that use...

USN-8294-1 postgresql-14, postgresql-16, postgresql-17, postgresql-18 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that PostgreSQL did not correctly enforce authorization for CREATE TYPE. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary SQL functions. CVE-2026-6472 It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled large user input in multiple server features. An attacker...

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

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FreeBSD : PostgreSQL -- Multiple vulnerabilities (7185ecc9-4fb7-11f1-bc50-6cc21735f730)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 7185ecc9-4fb7-11f1-bc50-6cc21735f730 advisory. The PostgreSQL project reports: Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE TYPE allows an obje...

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...