CVE-2026-104948
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs
Summary
WarehousePG (WHPG) 6.27.1 through 6.27.6 and 7.2.1 through 7.6.0 have a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the cluster expansion functions gp_expand_lock_catalog() and gp_expand_bump_version(). Any authenticated database role can run them without privilege checks, allowing catalog changes to be blocked cluster-wide or sessions with temporary tables to be repeatedly disconnected.
Risk Assessment
A low-privileged user can disrupt the entire cluster by blocking DDL, GRANT and CREATE ROLE operations and disconnecting sessions, causing a denial of service that requires superuser intervention.
Recommendation
Update WarehousePG to a patched version and restrict low-privileged roles from invoking the cluster expansion functions.
Other vulnerabilities in WarehousePG
See all- CVE-2026-104949Low
WarehousePG (WHPG) 6.27.1 through 6.27.6 and 7.2.1 through 7.6.0 are affected by a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in gp_add_coordinator_standby() (named gp_add_master_standby() in WHPG 6, kept as an alias in WHPG 7). Unlike other segment add and remove functions, it does not require superuser privileges. A low-privileged user who can open a utility-mode connection can add a fake standby coordinator entry to gp_segment_configuration on a cluster with no standby configured, preventing administrators from adding a real standby until a superuser removes the fake entry. User data is not exposed or modified.
- CVE-2026-104947Medium
WarehousePG (WHPG) 7.2.1 through 7.6.0 is affected by a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the built-in function gp_log_backend_memory_contexts(). Any authenticated database role can run this function without a GRANT, bypassing the superuser restriction PostgreSQL places on the underlying pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() function. A low-privileged user can force segment backends of any other session, including superuser sessions, to write memory context details to segment server logs, which may include query text from other users' cached plans.
- CVE-2026-96538High
WarehousePG (WHPG) 7.x before 7.6.0-WHPG is affected by a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the built-in server-side file functions pg_file_write, pg_file_rename, pg_file_unlink, and pg_logdir_ls. These functions are executable by any authenticated database role with no GRANT required, because the REVOKE applied in contrib/adminpack was never carried over to WHPG core. A non-superuser can create, overwrite, rename, and delete files under the data and log directories, and can enumerate log file names. They can also append configuration directives to postgresql.auto.conf, resulting in arbitrary code execution as the postgres OS user on the next server restart or configuration reload.
Original NVD description (English source)
WarehousePG (WHPG) 6.27.1 through 6.27.6 and 7.2.1 through 7.6.0 are affected by a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the built-in cluster expansion functions gp_expand_lock_catalog() and gp_expand_bump_version(). Any authenticated database role can run them, and neither checks privileges. A low-privileged user can call gp_expand_lock_catalog() inside an open transaction to block all catalog changes across the cluster for every user, superusers included, until that transaction ends, which in practice requires a superuser to terminate the session. Blocked changes include DDL, temporary table creation, GRANT and CREATE ROLE. The same user can call gp_expand_bump_version() repeatedly. Each call disconnects sessions that hold temporary tables, with a FATAL error on their next catalog change, and makes every other session rebuild its segment connections.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

