Servers and applications
CVE-2026-18408
Untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump in PostgreSQL allows a malicious superuser of the origin server to inject arbitrary code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql \restrict meta-command input expansion. The fix for CVE-2025-8714 introduced \restrict and \unrestrict to block this attack, but \unrestrict itself was sufficient…
- Severity
- High 8.8
- Published
- 13 Aug 2026
- Last changed
- 29 Aug 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 16 Oct 2026
- Fixed in
- 14.24, 15.19, 16.15, 17.11, 18.5
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
PostgreSQLServers and applications · cpe:a:postgresql:postgresql |
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