# CVE-2025-8713: PostgreSQL optimizer statistics can expose sampled data within a view, partition, or child table

> CVE-2025-8713: PostgreSQL optimizer statistics can expose sampled data within a view, partition, or child table. CVSS 3.1 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-8713
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:07:29Z

- Published: 2025-08-14 13:00 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:07 UTC · Assigner: PostgreSQL
- CVSS: 3.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Low · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.24%, 14th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-1230

## Description

PostgreSQL optimizer statistics allow a user to read sampled data within a view that the user cannot access.  Separately, statistics allow a user to read sampled data that a row security policy intended to hide.  PostgreSQL maintains statistics for tables by sampling data available in columns; this data is consulted during the query planning process.  Prior to this release, a user could craft a leaky operator that bypassed view access control lists (ACLs) and bypassed row security policies in partitioning or table inheritance hierarchies.  Reachable statistics data notably included histograms and most-common-values lists.  CVE-2017-7484 and CVE-2019-10130 intended to close this class of vulnerability, but this gap remained.  Versions before PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 are affected.

## Affected vendors and products

- n/a: PostgreSQL

## Tracked companies

- [GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8713)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8713)
- [https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-8713/](https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2025-8713/)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-8713 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-8713.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-8713 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:00:31.094Z