aiven-extras up to 1.1.15 format untrusted search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in aiven-extras up to 1.1.15. This vulnerability affects the function format. Such manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-31480. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in aiven-extras up to 1.1.15 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function format. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

aiven-extras is a PostgreSQL extension. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing elevation to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases that use the aiven-extras package. The vulnerability leverages the format function not being schema-prefixed. Affected users should install 1.1.16 and ensure they run the latest version issuing ALTER EXTENSION aiven_extras UPDATE TO '1.1.16' after installing it. This needs to happen in each database aiven_extras has been installed in.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-31480 since 03/28/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.1.16 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 77b5f19a0c1d196bc741ff5c774f85fe7ca3063b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Name

• aiven-extras

Version

• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.1.9
• 1.1.10
• 1.1.11
• 1.1.12
• 1.1.13
• 1.1.14
• 1.1.15

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• open-source

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