CVE-2025-1094 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-1094

PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

Vulnerability Description

Improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL libpq functions PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier(), PQescapeString(), and PQescapeStringConn() allows a database input provider to achieve SQL injection in certain usage patterns. Specifically, SQL injection requires the application to use the function result to construct input to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Similarly, improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL command line utility programs allows a source of command line arguments to achieve SQL injection when client_encoding is BIG5 and server_encoding is one of EUC_TW or MULE_INTERNAL. Versions before PostgreSQL 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, and 13.19 are affected.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • The PostgreSQL project thanks Stephen Fewer, Principal Security Researcher, Rapid7 for reporting this problem.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

PostgreSQL
Vulnerable Versions:
17, 16, 15, 14, 0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 13th, 2025
Last Modified: March 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.