CVE-2026-11401

Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Jun 5, 2026
Updated: Jun 8, 2026
Reserved: Jun 5, 2026

Description

An untrusted search path issue in the GlobalDatabasePlugin in the AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL will allow a remote authenticated low-privilege actor to escalate privileges to those of another Amazon RDS user, including rds_superuser, via a crafted function created by the actor that runs when that user connects to the cluster through the affected wrapper.

To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to the AWS Advanced Go Wrapper release 2026-05-26

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.6 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	AMZN
3.1	8.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	AMZN

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AWS Advanced Go WrapperAWS	2026-04-06 to before 2026-05-26Affected

References

https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/releases/tag/release-2026-05-26patch
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-039-aws/vendor-advisory
https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/security/advisories/GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcpthird-party-advisory

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