{"id":"CVE-2026-55765","aliases":["EUVD-2026-63685","GHSA-w3gf-xc94-wvmj","openSUSE-SU-2026:11167-1"],"status":"published","title":"CloudNativePG: 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","description":"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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.005,"percentile":0.43138,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-256","CWE-522"],"published":"2026-07-01T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:37Z","affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"openSUSE:Tumbleweed","package":"kubectl-cnpg","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.29.2-1.1"}]}],"bundled":3}],"products":[{"vendor":"cloudnative-pg","product":"cloudnative-pg"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/security/advisories/GHSA-w3gf-xc94-wvmj","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/pull/10724","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/2f0342747e1f160425b9d51753c0069b0d6117d5","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/3cd5af5d388c26758acf13c19ea806b4bcebb3fe","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/commit/9a13573dbe3d78721b7ea92141e6d2324a2c0ef0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.28.4","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.29.2","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/releases/tag/v1.30.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/55xxx/CVE-2026-55765.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55765","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1058","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55765","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55769","tags":["web"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-55765","title":"CloudNativePG: 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","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-20T21:38:47Z","modified":"2026-08-25T15:29:20Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:32.513581Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-55765","description":"CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. 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This issue is fixed in versions 1.28.4, 1.29.2, and 1.30.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-20T22:17:22.487Z","modified":"2026-10-26T10:10:00.14Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-256","CWE-522"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:40.302911Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-55765","title":"CloudNativePG: 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","description":"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. 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