Privilege Escalation in AWS Advanced Go Wrapper for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Summary

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

Timeline

1. Jun 5, 2026, 7:07 PM UTCCVE published
2. Jun 8, 2026, 2:35 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

3. Jun 8, 2026, 4:34 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• AWS AWS Advanced Go Wrapper

  From 2026-04-06 · fixed in 2026-05-26

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql/v2Go

  fixed in 2.0.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/xrayGo

  fixed in 1.07

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/aws-secrets-managerGo

  fixed in 1.1.2

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/custom-endpointGo

  fixed in 1.0.4

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/federated-authGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/iamGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/mysql-driverGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/oktaGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/pgx-driverGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/otlpGo

  fixed in 1.0.7

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/auth-helpersGo

  fixed in 1.1.1

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssqlGo

  All versions

• github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/xrayGo

  All versions

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