Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-08-18 08:11
Modified
2025-08-18 08:35
Summary
PostgreSQL pg_dump lets superuser of origin server execute arbitrary code in psql client
Details

Untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a malicious superuser of the origin server to inject arbitrary code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql meta-commands. pg_dumpall is also affected. pg_restore is affected when used to generate a plain-format dump. This is similar to MySQL CVE-2024-21096. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "postgresql",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/postgresql"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "13.22.0"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "14.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "14.19.0"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "15.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "15.14.0"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "16.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "16.10.0"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "17.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "17.6.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-8714"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a malicious superuser of the origin server to inject arbitrary code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql meta-commands.  pg_dumpall is also affected.  pg_restore is affected when used to generate a plain-format dump.  This is similar to MySQL CVE-2024-21096.  Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected.",
  "id": "BIT-postgresql-2025-8714",
  "modified": "2025-08-18T08:35:59.174Z",
  "published": "2025-08-18T08:11:26.372Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8714"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-8714/"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "PostgreSQL pg_dump lets superuser of origin server execute arbitrary code in psql client"
}


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