CVE-2025-12817 (GCVE-0-2025-12817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-13 13:00 – Updated: 2025-11-13 13:59
VLAI
Title
PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS does not check for schema CREATE privilege
Summary
Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS command allows a table owner to achieve denial of service against other CREATE STATISTICS users by creating in any schema. A later CREATE STATISTICS for the same name, from a user having the CREATE privilege, would then fail. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 are affected.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-13 13:59 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a PostgreSQL Affected: 18 , < 18.1 (rpm)
Affected: 17 , < 17.7 (rpm)
Affected: 16 , < 16.11 (rpm)
Affected: 15 , < 15.15 (rpm)
Affected: 14 , < 14.20 (rpm)
Affected: 0 , < 13.23 (rpm)
Credits
The PostgreSQL project thanks Jelte Fennema-Nio for reporting this problem.
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