CVE-2026-9617
Published: 27 May 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-9617 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Dalibo Anonymizer. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 16.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-32504
Vulnerability details
PostgreSQL Anonymizer contains a vulnerability that allows a user to gain superuser privileges by creating a table and placing malicious code inside a column identifier. If a superuser calls the k-anonymity function, the malicious code is executed with superuser privileges.…
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The risk is higher with PostgreSQL 14 or with instances upgraded from PostgreSQL 14 or a prior version. With PostgreSQL 15 and later, the creation permission on the public schema is revoked by default and this exploit can only be achieved by a user who was explicitly granted the CREATE TABLE privilege. The problem is resolved in PostgreSQL Anonymizer 3.1.0 and further versions
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
SQL injection (CWE-89) in PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension allows unprivileged user to inject malicious identifiers that execute with superuser rights on k-anonymity function call, directly enabling T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
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Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.