CVE-2022-1552: PostgreSQL

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL. There is an issue with incomplete efforts to operate safely when a privileged user is maintaining another user's objects. The Autovacuum, REINDEX, CREATE INDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER, and pg_amcheck commands activated relevant protections too late or not at all during the process. This flaw allows an attacker with permission to create non-temporary objects in at least one schema to execute arbitrary SQL functions under a superuser identity.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: from 10.0, before 10.21 (fixed in 10.21); from 11.0, before 11.16 (fixed in 11.16); from 12.0, before 12.11 (fixed in 12.11); from 13.0, before 13.7 (fixed in 13.7); from 14.0, before 14.3 (fixed in 14.3)

Published 2022-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.