CVE-2023-41119: Enterprisedb Postgres Advanced Server

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) before 11.21.32, 12.x before 12.16.20, 13.x before 13.12.16, 14.x before 14.9.0, and 15.x before 15.4.0. It contains the function _dbms_aq_move_to_exception_queue that may be used to elevate a user's privileges to superuser. This function accepts the OID of a table, and then accesses that table as the superuser by using SELECT and DML commands.

Affected products

• Enterprisedb Postgres Advanced Server: before 11.21.32 (fixed in 11.21.32); from 12.0.0, before 12.16.20 (fixed in 12.16.20); from 13.0.0, before 13.12.17 (fixed in 13.12.17); from 14.0.0, before 14.9.0 (fixed in 14.9.0); from 15.0.0, before 15.4.0 (fixed in 15.4.0)

Published 2023-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.