CVE-2022-1552A flaw was found in PostgreSQL. There is an issue with incomplete efforts to operate safely when a privileged user is maintaining another…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 17.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL. There is an issue with incomplete efforts to operate safely when a privileged user is maintaining another user's objects. The Autovacuum, REINDEX, CREATE INDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER, and pg_amcheck commands activated relevant protections too late or not at all during the process. This flaw allows an attacker with permission to create non-temporary objects in at least one schema to execute arbitrary SQL functions under a superuser identity.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.0% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
postgresql
- affected Fixed in postgresql 14.3, postgresql 13.7, postgresql 12.11, postgresql 11.16, postgresql 10.21.
References
References6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081126 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-143-137-1211-1116-and-1021-released-2449/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2022-1552/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1552 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202211-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-24847 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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