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GHSA-8wj8-cfxr-9374 AWS Advanced NodeJS Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL instance

HIGH Published 2025-11-13 Modified 2025-11-13 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-470
Reviewed
2025-11-13

Affected packages

• npm aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper: < 2.0.1 → fixed in 2.0.1

Description

Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends that customers upgrade to the following version: AWS NodeJS Wrapper to v2.0.1. Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [email protected] Affected products & versions: AWS NodeJS Wrapper < 2.0.1. Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-470 Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code weakness

References