CVE-2026-44477
This vulnerability is fixed in 1.29.1 and 1.28.3.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 4.0
- 9.4 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.48% probability · 40th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-250, CWE-271, CWE-426
- Affected
- linuxfoundation/cloudnativepg
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/pull/10576Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/security/advisories/GHSA-423p-g724-fr39Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.