CVE-2025-8714

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2025-8714

To remediate CVE-2025-8714, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 15.14-r0 or later
—upgrade to 16.10-r0 or later
—upgrade to 17.6-r0 or later
—upgrade to 13.22.0 or later
—upgrade to 13.22-0+deb11u1 or later
—upgrade to 15.14-0+deb12u1 or later
—upgrade to 17.6-0+deb13u1 or later

Is CVE-2025-8714 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (7)

from 0, < 15.14-r0
from 0, < 16.10-r0
from 0, < 17.6-r0
from 0, < 13.22.0, >= 14.0.0, < 14.19.0, >= 15.0.0, < 15.14.0, >= 16.0.0, < 16.10.0, >= 17.0.0, < 17.6.0
from 0, < 13.22-0+deb11u1
from 0, < 15.14-0+deb12u1
from 0, < 17.6-0+deb13u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H