PostgreSQL Releases Security Update Fixing 28 Vulnerabilities and Over 110 Bugs
The PostgreSQL development team released a comprehensive security update on August 13, 2026, addressing 28 vulnerabilities and more than 110 bugs.
Although none of the issues received a CVSSv3.1 base score of 9.0 or higher, 18 vulnerabilities were rated 7.0 or above, including 14 scored at 8.8.
Key Vulnerabilities Addressed
- CVE-2026-14664 — heap buffer overflow in regular expression processing that could allow arbitrary code execution
- CVE-2026-14669 — vulnerability in the to_char function
- CVE-2026-14670 — issue in the plperl extension
- CVE-2026-16238 and CVE-2026-16239 — heap buffer overflows in pg_stat_statements and pg_dump, plus type confusion flaws
- CVE-2026-15741 — SQL injection vulnerability
The update is available from the official PostgreSQL project resources.
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