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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 3.1 Low | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N | PostgreSQL |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1230 Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Metadata
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
PostgreSQLn/a |
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References
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