CVE-2025-55282
Published: 18 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-55282 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Aiven Aiven-Db-Migrate. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 35.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-6 (Least Privilege) and CM-6 (Configuration Settings).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-55282 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in aiven-db-migrate, an Aiven database migration tool. Versions prior to 1.0.7 fail to restrict the search_path during migrations from untrusted source servers to PostgreSQL databases. This allows an attacker to override the pg_catalog schema and execute untrusted operators with superuser privileges. The issue is classified under CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory) and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
An attacker with high privileges (PR:H), such as the ability to initiate or influence a database migration from an untrusted source, can exploit this over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (C:H/I:H/A:H), enabling superuser escalation within the target PostgreSQL database.
The vulnerability is fixed in aiven-db-migrate version 1.0.7. Aiven's security advisory (GHSA-hmvf-93r4-36f9) and the corresponding patch commit (39517dc55720055d93262033b142a365f5bf92c5) detail the remediation, which addresses the search_path restriction to prevent schema override during migrations. Security practitioners should upgrade to 1.0.7 or later and audit migration workflows involving untrusted sources.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-25129
Vulnerability details
aiven-db-migrate is an Aiven database migration tool. Prior to 1.0.7, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a user to elevate to superuser inside PostgreSQL databases during a migration from an untrusted source server. By exploiting a lack of…
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search_path restriction, an attacker can override pg_catalog and execute untrusted operators as a superuser. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.7.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Direct privilege escalation to superuser via exploitation of search_path handling flaw during DB migration, matching T1068 exactly.
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Mitigating Controls
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Enforces least privilege to prevent privilege escalation during database migrations by ensuring the aiven-db-migrate tool and PostgreSQL connections do not allow superuser elevation from untrusted sources.
Requires timely remediation and patching of the specific search_path restriction flaw in aiven-db-migrate versions prior to 1.0.7 to eliminate the privilege escalation vulnerability.
Mandates secure configuration settings for database migration tools, including explicit search_path restrictions, to block pg_catalog overrides during migrations from untrusted sources.