CVE-2026-55765 (GCVE-0-2026-55765)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-20 21:38 – Updated: 2026-08-20 21:38
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Title
CloudNativePG: Cleartext role passwords recorded in pg_stat_statements allow privileged tenant roles to recover the PostgreSQL superuser credential and achieve RCE in the database pod
Summary
CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.28.4 and 1.29.2, CloudNativePG embedded cleartext role passwords in `ALTER ROLE` and `CREATE ROLE` statements generated by SetUserPassword in pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go and appendPasswordOption in internal/management/controller/roles/postgres.go. When pg_stat_statements was preloaded with track_utility enabled and an untrusted tenant held pg_monitor or pg_read_all_stats, the tenant could recover platform-managed superuser or application-owner passwords, reconnect through enabled superuser TCP access, and execute operating system commands in the database pod with `COPY ... FROM PROGRAM`. Clusters using SCRAM-SHA-256 verifiers in managed-role Secrets were not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 1.28.4, 1.29.2, and 1.30.0.
Severity
8.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-256 - Plaintext Storage of a Password
  • CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
cloudnative-pg cloudnative-pg Affected: < 1.28.4
Affected: >= 1.29.0, < 1.29.2
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