Microsoft advisory for CVE-2026-16238 — azl3 postgresql 16.14-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 postgresql 16.14-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-16238
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Type confusion in PostgreSQL pg_restore_attribute_stats() allows an object creator to execute arbitrary code as the operating system user running the database, via conflation of range and multirange values. Within major version 18, minor versions before PostgreSQL 18.6 are affected. Versions before PostgreSQL 18 are unaffected.
Published by PostgreSQL, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-16238, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).