CVE-2026-116304
Received
Received - Intake
Use After Free in PostgreSQL Parallel Workers
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-116304, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-12
Last updated on: 2026-11-12
Assigner: PostgreSQL
Description
Description
Use after free in PostgreSQL coordination of anonymous RECORD type identifiers among parallel workers allows a database user to execute arbitrary code as the operating system user running the database, via causing one process to free a shared tuple descriptor while another process retains and later uses its address. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, and 14.25 are affected.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| postgresql | postgresql | to 18.7|end_excluding=17.12|end_excluding=16.16|end_excluding=15.20|end_excluding=14.25 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-843 | The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type. |
| CWE-416 | The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer. |
