aiven aiven-db-migrate up to 1.0.6 path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in aiven aiven-db-migrate up to 1.0.6 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-55282. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in aiven aiven-db-migrate up to 1.0.6. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

aiven-db-migrate is an Aiven database migration tool. Prior to 1.0.7, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a user to elevate to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases during a migration from an untrusted source server. By exploiting a lack of search_path restriction, an attacker can override pg_catalog and execute untrusted operators as a superuser. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.7.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-55282 since 08/12/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.0.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-25129). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• aiven

Name

• aiven-db-migrate

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6

Website

• Product: https://github.com/aiven/aiven-db-migrate/

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