CVE-2025-31480

EUVD-2025-9753 · Published Apr 4, 2025

aiven-extras is a PostgreSQL extension. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing elevation to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases that use the aiven-extras package. The vulnerability leverages the format function not being schema-prefixed. Affected users should install 1.1.16 and ensure they run the latest version issuing ALTER EXTENSION aiven_extras UPDATE TO '1.1.16' after installing it. This needs to happen in each database aiven_extras has been installed in.

Weaknesses

CWE-426

CVSS scores

v3.19.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

ReconImpact

Initial Access Execution Stealth

T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application T1574.007Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable T1574.009Path Interception by Unquoted Path

References

https://github.com/aiven/aiven-extras/commit/77b5f19a0c1d196bc741ff5c774f85fe7ca3063b
https://github.com/aiven/aiven-extras/security/advisories/GHSA-33xh-jqgf-6627

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