CVE-2026-116316
Received Received - Intake

Improper Alternate Path Protection in PostgreSQL

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-116316, 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

Improper protection of alternate path in PostgreSQL security-restricted operations allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL as the operation's caller, via a domain, enum, or range type created in pg_temp. The victim session must later run a query containing an unqualified type name, e.g. "SELECT '1'::bigint"; autovacuum and other common security-restricted operation users do not do so, so they are unaffected. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, and 14.25 are affected.

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Published
2026-11-12
Last Modified
2026-11-12
Generated
2026-11-12
EPSS Evaluated
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postgresql postgresql to 14.25 (exc)

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CWE ID Description
CWE-424 The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

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