Vulnerability in CloudNativePG (CVE-2026-55765)
Summary
Vulnerability in CloudNativePG (CVE-2026-55765). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
CloudNativePG is a platform designed to manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments. Prior to 1.28.4 and 1.29.2, CloudNativePG embedded cleartext role passwords in ALTER ROLE and CREATE ROLE statements generated by SetUserPassword in pkg/management/postgres/utils/roles.go and appendPasswordOption in internal/management/controller/roles/postgres.go. When pg_stat_statements was preloaded with track_utility enabled and an untrusted tenant held pg_monitor or pg_read_all_stats, the tenant could recover platform-managed superuser or application-owner passwords, reconnect through enabled superuser TCP access, and execute operating system commands in the database pod with COPY ... FROM PROGRAM. Clusters using SCRAM-SHA-256 verifiers in managed-role Secrets were not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 1.28.4, 1.29.2, and 1.30.0.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-55765 has been found in CloudNativePG.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "CloudNativePG CVE-2026-55765" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-55765 (CloudNativePG) — CWE-256 / CVSS v3 8.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-256) exists in CloudNativePG.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of CloudNativePG.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.5/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'CloudNativePG' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'CloudNativePG' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
CloudNativePGを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。