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High · 8.0 CVE-2026-11401 EUVD-2026-34901GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcpGO-2026-5601

Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Published Jun 5, 2026 · Updated Jun 8, 2026 · Assigned by AMZN

Vendor: AWS Product: AWS Advanced Go Wrapper Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/auth-helpers Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/aws-secrets-manager Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql/v2 Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/custom-endpoint Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/federated-auth Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/iam Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/mysql-driver Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/okta Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/otlp Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/pgx-driver Package: github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/xray Ecosystem: Go

Description

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AWS AWS Advanced Go Wrapper 2026-04-06 – < 2026-05-26 2026-05-26

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/auth-helpers < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/aws-secrets-manager < 1.1.2 1.1.2 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql all versions — GO-2026-5601
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql/v2 < 2.0.1 2.0.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/custom-endpoint < 1.0.4 1.0.4 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/federated-auth < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/iam < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/mysql-driver < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/okta < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/otlp < 1.0.7 1.0.7 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/pgx-driver < 1.1.1 1.1.1 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/xray < 1.07 1.07 GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp
Go github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/xray all versions — GO-2026-5601

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