Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2POSTGRESQL14-2025-019
Advisory Released Date: 2025-09-04
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-09-04
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. (CVE-2025-8713)
Untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump 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 restore the dump, via psql meta-commands. pg_dumpall is also affected. pg_restore is affected when used to generate a plain-format dump. This is similar to MySQL CVE-2024-21096. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected. (CVE-2025-8714)
Improper neutralization of newlines in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a user of the origin server to inject arbitrary code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql meta-commands inside a purpose-crafted object name. The same attacks can achieve SQL injection as a superuser of the restore target server. pg_dumpall, pg_restore, and pg_upgrade are also affected. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected. Versions before 11.20 are unaffected. CVE-2012-0868 had fixed this class of problem, but version 11.20 reintroduced it. (CVE-2025-8715)
Affected Packages:
postgresql
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Postgresql14 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql or yum update --advisory ALAS2POSTGRESQL14-2025-019 to update your system.
aarch64:
postgresql-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-server-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-docs-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-contrib-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-server-devel-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-static-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-upgrade-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-upgrade-devel-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-plperl-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-plpython3-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-pltcl-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-test-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-llvmjit-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
postgresql-debuginfo-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
noarch:
postgresql-test-rpm-macros-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
postgresql-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
postgresql-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-server-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-docs-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-contrib-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-server-devel-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-static-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-upgrade-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-upgrade-devel-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-plperl-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-plpython3-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-pltcl-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-test-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-llvmjit-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
postgresql-debuginfo-14.19-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64