Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High ALSA-2025:1740 1 CVE

Important: postgresql:16 security update

Published Feb 20, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

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 18

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 pg_repack 1.5.1-1.module_el8.10.0+3930+ecf33554
AlmaLinux · 8 pgaudit 16.0-1.module_el8.10.0+3798+606ebb9f
AlmaLinux · 8 postgres-decoderbufs 2.4.0-1.Final.module_el8.10.0+3798+606ebb9f
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-contrib 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-docs 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-plperl 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-plpython3 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-pltcl 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-private-devel 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-private-libs 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-server 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-server-devel 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-static 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-test 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-test-rpm-macros 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-upgrade 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353
AlmaLinux · 8 postgresql-upgrade-devel 16.8-1.module_el8.10.0+3969+2c3c9353

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/8/ALSA-2025-1740.html