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FKIE_CVE-2026-14666

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-13 13:17 - Updated: 2026-08-29 23:17

Severity

4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

Incomplete tracking in PostgreSQL of changes to role membership, role attributes, and database ownership allows a query to continue using cached row-level security policies after those changes require a different policy, via plan reuse. Stale policies continue until some other event invalidates the cache or connection termination ends the session. This permits a user to complete reads and modifications that were recently permitted but now forbidden. An attacker must tailor an attack to a particular application's pattern of privilege removal and role-specific row security policies. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.

References

	URL	Tags
	f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007	https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2026-14666/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
postgresql	postgresql	*
postgresql	postgresql	*
postgresql	postgresql	*
postgresql	postgresql	*
postgresql	postgresql	*

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CVE-2026-14666 (GCVE-0-2026-14666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 13:00 – Updated: 2026-08-29 23:07

Title

PostgreSQL row security caching disregards role modifications

Summary

Severity

4.2 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-13 14:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-1250 - Improper Preservation of Consistency Between Independent Representations of Shared State

Assigner

PostgreSQL redhat root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	PostgreSQL	Affected: 18 , < 18.6 (rpm) Affected: 17 , < 17.11 (rpm) Affected: 16 , < 16.15 (rpm) Affected: 15 , < 15.19 (rpm) Affected: 0 , < 14.24 (rpm)

Credits

The PostgreSQL project thanks Staroverov Ilja and Shinya Kato for reporting this problem.

Show details on NVD website

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