CVE-2025-12817

PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS does not check for schema CREATE privilege

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Nov 13, 2025
Updated: Nov 13, 2025
Reserved: Nov 6, 2025

Description

Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS command allows a table owner to achieve denial of service against other CREATE STATISTICS users by creating in any schema. A later CREATE STATISTICS for the same name, from a user having the CREATE privilege, would then fail. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 are affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	PostgreSQL

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PostgreSQLn/a	18 to before 18.1Affected 17 to before 17.7Affected 16 to before 16.11Affected 15 to before 15.15Affected 14 to before 14.20Affected before 13.23Affected

References

https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-12817/

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