{"id":"CVE-2021-33204","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-33204","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:50:21.616Z","title":"In the pg_partman (aka PG Partition Manager) extension before 4.5.1 for PostgreSQL, arbitrary code execution can be achieved via SECURITY DEFINER functions because an explicit search_path is not set.","description":"In the pg_partman (aka PG Partition Manager) extension before 4.5.1 for PostgreSQL, arbitrary code execution can be achieved via SECURITY DEFINER functions because an explicit search_path is not set.","published":"2021-05-19T17:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:54:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["pgxn/pg partman"],"epss":{"score":0.022,"percentile":0.82417,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/commit/0b6565ad378c358f8a6cd1d48ddc482eb7f854d3","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/compare/v4.5.0...v4.5.1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210625-0006/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/commit/0b6565ad378c358f8a6cd1d48ddc482eb7f854d3","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman/compare/v4.5.0...v4.5.1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210625-0006/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33204","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}