CVE-2025-12817

Description

Missing authorization in PostgreSQL CREATE STATISTICS command allows a table owner to achieve denial of service against other CREATE STATISTICS users by creating in any schema. A later CREATE STATISTICS for the same name, from a user having the CREATE privilege, would then fail. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 are affected.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-06 | Published 2025-11-13 | Updated 2025-11-13 | Assigner PostgreSQL

Problem types

Missing Authorization

Credits

The PostgreSQL project thanks Jelte Fennema-Nio for reporting this problem.

References

www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-12817/

cve.org (CVE-2025-12817)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12817)

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