CVE-2025-12967
AWS Advanced Go Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL Instance
Description
### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. We recommend customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Go Wrapper to 2025-10-17 ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) ### Affected products & versions: AWS Go Wrapper < 2025-10-17 ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux
How to fix CVE-2025-12967
To remediate CVE-2025-12967, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.1.1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.5 or later
- —upgrade to 2.0.1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4.0 or later
Is CVE-2025-12967 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (13)
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.1.1
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
- from 0, < 1.0.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |