High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2026

CVE-2026-116313

Description

Untrusted search path in PostgreSQL vacuumdb allows a database owner to execute arbitrary SQL as the database user running vacuumdb, via shadowing operators used in the --missing-stats-only catalog query. The pg_upgrade documentation recommends an affected vacuumdb invocation. Within major version 18, minor versions before PostgreSQL 18.7 are affected. Versions before PostgreSQL 18 are unaffected.

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Affected products

PostgreSQL/PostgreSQLllm-fuzzy
Range: <18.7

Patches

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References

www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2026-116313/nvd

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