Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
8.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

pgpartman is a PostgreSQL extension that manages partitioned tables by time or ID. Prior to 5.5.0, inherittemplateproperties() manually surrounds primary-key column names from pgattribute.attname with double quotes without escaping embedded double-quote characters. A partmanuser who owns a template table can create a crafted column name that breaks out of the generated ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY identifier when the background worker applies the key to a child partition. The generated SQL then executes with pgpartmanbgw.role privileges, which default to PostgreSQL superuser, permitting database-wide compromise and operating-system command execution as the PostgreSQL service account. The crafted catalog identifier persists until removed and can trigger again during later partition creation. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.0.

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