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High ALSA-2025:1738 1 CVE

Important: libpq security update

Published Feb 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The libpq package provides the PostgreSQL client library, which allows client programs to connect to PostgreSQL servers.

Security Fix(es):

* postgresql: PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation (CVE-2025-1094)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 libpq 13.20-1.el9_5
AlmaLinux · 9 libpq-devel 13.20-1.el9_5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2025-1094 Public exploit EPSS 90%

    PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

    Improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL libpq functions PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier(), PQescapeString(), and PQescapeStringConn() allows a database input provider to achieve SQL injection in certain usage patterns. Specifically, SQL …

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1094
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2345548
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-1738.html