PostgreSQL up to 17.5 exposure of sensitive information through metadata

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in PostgreSQL up to 13.21/14.18/15.13/16.9/17.5. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to exposure of sensitive information through metadata. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-8713. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL up to 13.21/14.18/15.13/16.9/17.5 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exposure of sensitive information through metadata vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1230. The product prevents direct access to a resource containing sensitive information, but it does not sufficiently limit access to metadata that is derived from the original, sensitive information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at postgresql.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-8713 since 08/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 249339 (Debian dla-4273 : libecpg-compat3 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 13.22, 14.19, 15.14, 16.10 or 17.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (249339) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1842). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell Avamar
• Open Source PostgreSQL
• Dell NetWorker

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Type

• Database Software

Name

• PostgreSQL

Version

• 13.0
• 13.1
• 13.2
• 13.3
• 13.4
• 13.5
• 13.6
• 13.7
• 13.8
• 13.9
• 13.10
• 13.11
• 13.12
• 13.13
• 13.14
• 13.15
• 13.16
• 13.17
• 13.18
• 13.19
• 13.20
• 13.21
• 14.0
• 14.1
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.5
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 14.8
• 14.9
• 14.10
• 14.11
• 14.12
• 14.13
• 14.14
• 14.15
• 14.16
• 14.17
• 14.18
• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7
• 15.8
• 15.9
• 15.10
• 15.11
• 15.12
• 15.13
• 16.0
• 16.1
• 16.2
• 16.3
• 16.4
• 16.5
• 16.6
• 16.7
• 16.8
• 16.9
• 17.0
• 17.1
• 17.2
• 17.3
• 17.4
• 17.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://www.postgresql.org/

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