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CVE-2023-25149

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-25149 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting TimescaleDB versions 2.8.0 through 2.9.2. It allows a malicious user to gain elevated privileges by exploiting an insecure search_path in the telemetry job created during installation, which executes user-defined functions. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.8.0, <= 2.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:timescale:timescaledb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0078 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / timescale/timescaledb/pull/5259
Patch
github.com / timescale/timescaledb/releases/tag/2.9.3
Release Notes
github.com / timescale/timescaledb/security/advisories/GHSA-44jh-j22r-33wq
MitigationThird Party Advisory