CVE-2026-55765CloudNativePG: Cleartext role passwords recorded in pg_stat_statements allow privileged tenant roles to recover the PostgreSQL superuser credential and achieve RCE in the database pod
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CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.28.4 and 1.29.2, CloudNativePG embedded cleartext role passwords in `ALTER ROLE` and `CREATE ROLE` statements generated by SetUserPassword in pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go and appendPasswordOption in internal/management/controller/roles/postgres.go. When pg_stat_statements was preloaded with track_utility enabled and an untrusted tenant held pg_monitor or pg_read_all_stats, the tenant could recover platform-managed superuser or application-owner passwords, reconnect through enabled superuser TCP access, and execute operating system commands in the database pod with `COPY ... FROM PROGRAM`. Clusters using SCRAM-SHA-256 verifiers in managed-role Secrets were not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 1.28.4, 1.29.2, and 1.30.0.
- CVSS
- 8.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-256, CWE-522
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Aug 25, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
cloudnative-pg cloudnative-pg cloudnative_pg:cloudnative_pg (from the name) | before 1.28.4; from 1.29.0, < 1.29.2 | CNA record |
References
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/security/advisories/GHSA-w3gf-xc94-wvmjx-refsource-confirm
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/pull/10724x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/2f0342747e1f160425b9d51753c0069b0d6117d5x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/3cd5af5d388c26758acf13c19ea806b4bcebb3fex-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/9a13573dbe3d78721b7ea92141e6d2324a2c0ef0x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.28.4x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.29.2x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.30.0x-refsource-misc
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