CVE-2026-44477

CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.28.3, the CloudNativePG metrics exporter opens its PostgreSQL connection as the postgres superuser via the pod-local Unix socket, then demotes the session with SET ROLE pg_monitor. SET ROLE changes only current_user; session_user remains postgres. Any SQL expression evaluated inside the scrape session can invoke RESET ROLE to recover real superuser privileges, then use COPY ... TO PROGRAM to spawn an OS-level subprocess as the postgres user inside the primary pod. The READ ONLY transaction flag does not block this; it gates writes to database state, not external processes. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.29.1 and 1.28.3.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.9 Critical

Status

Modified - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2026-05-28

Last modified

2026-07-15

Weaknesses

CWE-250, CWE-271, CWE-426

Affected products

• Cloudnative-pg (Cloudnative-pg)
• Cloudnativepg (Linuxfoundation)
• Openshift Data Foundation (Redhat)

References

• https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/pull/10576
• https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/security/advisories/GHSA-423p-g724-fr39
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44477
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482763
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-44477.json