CVE-2025-1094

PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.1
EPSS
EPSS 90.03 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-28)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
PostgreSQL
NVD status
Deferred

Description

Improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL libpq functions PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier(), PQescapeString(), and PQescapeStringConn() allows a database input provider to achieve SQL injection in certain usage patterns. Specifically, SQL injection requires the application to use the function result to construct input to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Similarly, improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL command line utility programs allows a source of command line arguments to achieve SQL injection when client_encoding is BIG5 and server_encoding is one of EUC_TW or MULE_INTERNAL. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, and 13.19 are affected.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HPostgreSQL
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
PostgreSQLaffected 17 < 17.3 ; affected 16 < 16.7 ; affected 15 < 15.11 ; affected 14 < 14.16 ; affected 0 < 13.19

References

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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