CVE-2025-31480 – aiven-extras allows PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation through format function

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2025-31480

04 Apr 2025 — aiven-extras is a PostgreSQL extension. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability, allowing elevation to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases that use the aiven-extras package. The vulnerability leverages the format function not being schema-prefixed. Affected users should install 1.1.16 and ensure they run the latest version issuing ALTER EXTENSION aiven_extras UPDATE TO '1.1.16' after installing it. This needs to happen in each database aiven_extras has been installed in. • https://github.com/aiven/aiven-extras/commit/77b5f19a0c1d196bc741ff5c774f85fe7ca3063b • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path •