Untrusted search path in PostgreSQL amcheck allows a grantee of amcheck function EXECUTE privilege to execute arbitrary functions as the owners of expression indexes that depend on the search path, via setting a hostile search path before calling the amcheck function. Within major versions 18, 16, 15, and 14, minor versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected. PostgreSQL 17 is unaffected.
CVE-2026-14673
Score 3.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-13. A secondary CVSS source baseline 3.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.8
- EG Score
- 3.8LOWmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 17EG Risk 17/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity38% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.2%
- EPSS %ILE
- 6th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
August 13, 2026
Last Modified
August 29, 2026
References (1)
- f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2026-14673/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-14673(4)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:57198Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- CVE-2026-14673Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Low
PostgreSQL amcheck does not clear untrusted search path
- RHSA-2026:54751Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- GHSA-qp83-ppf3-v924GitHub Security AdvisoriesLow
Untrusted search path in PostgreSQL amcheck allows a grantee of amcheck function EXECUTE...
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | postgresql-server-dev-18 (18.6-0ubuntu0.26.04.1) @ resolute | 2026-10-03 | ubuntu |
| redhat | postgresql17-main-17.11-1.hum1 | 2026-08-20 | redhat |
| redhat | postgresql18-main-18.6-0.1.hum1 | 2026-08-13 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(11 across 7 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.21(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql16 | — |
| — |
| postgresql17 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.22(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql16 | — |
| — |
| postgresql17 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.23(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql17 | — |
| — |
| postgresql18 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.24(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql17 | — |
| — |
| postgresql18 | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql-15 | 15.10-0+deb12u1 ... 15.9-0+deb12u1 (21 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql-17 | 17.10-0+deb13u1 ... 17.9-0+deb13u1 (7 versions) |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql-18 | 18.0-1 ... 18~~devel.20250502-1 (20 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(1)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 22:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-03 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-03 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 21:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 21:50 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-30 21:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-27 09:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-27 09:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-27 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-23 02:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 02:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-23 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-20 02:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-20 02:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-20 02:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 01:52 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-17 01:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-17 01:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-14 01:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 01:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-14 01:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 01:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-11 01:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-11 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-08 00:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-08 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-08 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-05 00:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-05 00:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-05 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-01 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-01 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-01 23:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-29 23:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-29 23:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-29 23:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-29 23:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-29 23:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-29 23:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-28 02:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-28 02:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-28 02:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 01:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-25 01:57 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-25 01:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-22 01:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-22 01:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-22 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 15:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 16:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 16:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 16:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 16:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 16:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 13:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 13:16 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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