CloudNative-PG CloudNativePG up to 1.28.3/1.29.1 Roles roles.go SetUserPassword missing encryption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in CloudNative-PG CloudNativePG up to 1.28.3/1.29.1 and classified as problematic. The affected element is the function SetUserPassword of the file pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go of the component Roles. The manipulation results in missing encryption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-55765. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in CloudNative-PG CloudNativePG up to 1.28.3/1.29.1. Affected is the function SetUserPassword of the file pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go of the component Roles. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.28.4 and 1.29.2, CloudNativePG embedded cleartext role passwords in `ALTER ROLE` and `CREATE ROLE` statements generated by SetUserPassword in pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go and appendPasswordOption in internal/management/controller/roles/postgres.go. When pg_stat_statements was preloaded with track_utility enabled and an untrusted tenant held pg_monitor or pg_read_all_stats, the tenant could recover platform-managed superuser or application-owner passwords, reconnect through enabled superuser TCP access, and execute operating system commands in the database pod with `COPY ... FROM PROGRAM`. Clusters using SCRAM-SHA-256 verifiers in managed-role Secrets were not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 1.28.4, 1.29.2, and 1.30.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-55765 since 06/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.28.4, 1.29.2 or 1.30.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Cloud Software

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• CloudNative-PG

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• CloudNativePG

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• 1.28.0
• 1.28.1
• 1.28.2
• 1.28.3
• 1.29.0
• 1.29.1

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