CVE-2025-8713

PostgreSQL optimizer statistics can expose sampled data within a view, partition, or child table

State
Published
Severity
3.1 Low
Published
Aug 14, 2025
Updated
Aug 14, 2025
Reserved
Aug 7, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.1 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NPostgreSQL

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1230 Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Metadata

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PostgreSQLn/a
  • 17 to before 17.6Affected
  • 16 to before 16.10Affected
  • 15 to before 15.14Affected
  • 14 to before 14.19Affected
  • before 13.22Affected

References

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