# CVE-2026-11401: Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

> CVE-2026-11401: Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. CVSS 8.0 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-11401
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:13:59Z

- Published: 2026-06-05 19:07 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:13 UTC · Assigner: AMZN
- CVSS: 8.0 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.30%, 23th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-426

## 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 vendors and products

- AWS: AWS Advanced Go Wrapper

## Tracked companies

- [Amazon Web Services](https://rewindex.com/company/aws.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11401)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11401)
- [https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-039-aws/](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-039-aws/)
- [https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/releases/tag/release-2026-05-26](https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/releases/tag/release-2026-05-26)
- [https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/security/advisories/GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp](https://github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/security/advisories/GHSA-r236-5pc3-3qcp)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-11401 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-11401.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-11401 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:15:08.522Z