CVE-2025-55283

aiven-db-migrate is an Aiven database migration tool. Prior to 1.0.7, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows elevation to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases during a migration from an untrusted source server. The vulnerability stems from psql executing commands embedded in a dump from the source server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.7.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.1 Critical

Status

Analyzed - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2025-08-18

Last modified

2025-08-18

Weaknesses

CWE-77

Affected products

• Aiven-db-migrate (Aiven)

References

• https://github.com/aiven/aiven-db-migrate/commit/36f6c7f7d06216975f625da0a1cb514253c4b3df
• https://github.com/aiven/aiven-db-migrate/security/advisories/GHSA-wqhc-grmj-fjvg