CVE-2025-12967High· 8.0▾ TwilightAWS Advanced Python Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL instance
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 44 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.4%
0.4% → 0.5%
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 customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Python Wrapper to v1.4.0
Allistair Ishmael Hakim [email protected]
AWS Python Wrapper < 1.4.0
MacOS/Windows/Linux
aws-advanced-python-wrapper < 1.4.0Upgrade to a patched release:
aws-advanced-python-wrapper 1.4.0