CVE-2026-11401 PUBLISHED

Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Assigner: AMZN
Reserved: 05.06.2026 Published: 05.06.2026 Updated: 05.06.2026

An untrusted search path issue in the GlobalDatabasePlugin in the AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL will allow a remote authenticated low-privilege actor to escalate privileges to those of another Amazon RDS user, including rds_superuser, via a crafted function created by the actor that runs when that user connects to the cluster through the affected wrapper.

To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to the AWS Advanced Go Wrapper release 2026-05-26

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.6

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	Passive

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	AWS
Product	AWS Advanced Go Wrapper
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 2026-04-06 to 2026-05-26 (excl.)

CVE-2026-11401 PUBLISHED

Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

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