CVE-2026-14666: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incomplete tracking in PostgreSQL of changes to role membership, role attributes, and database ownership allows a query to continue using cached row-level security policies after those changes require a different policy, via plan reuse. Stale policies continue until some other event invalidates the cache or connection termination ends the session. This permits a user to complete reads and modifications that were recently permitted but now forbidden. An attacker must tailor an attack to a particular application's pattern of privilege removal and role-specific row security policies. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: from 14.0, before 14.24 (fixed in 14.24); from 15.0, before 15.19 (fixed in 15.19); from 16.0, before 16.15 (fixed in 16.15); from 17.0, before 17.11 (fixed in 17.11); from 18.0, before 18.5 (fixed in 18.5)

Published 2026-08-13. Last modified 2026-08-29.