CVE-2025-8715

Description

Improper neutralization of newlines in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a user 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 inside a purpose-crafted object name. The same attacks can achieve SQL injection as a superuser of the restore target server. pg_dumpall, pg_restore, and pg_upgrade are also affected. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected. Versions before 11.20 are unaffected. CVE-2012-0868 had fixed this class of problem, but version 11.20 reintroduced it.

How to fix CVE-2025-8715

To remediate CVE-2025-8715, 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-2025-8715 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, 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
>= 11.20.0, < 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