GHSA-7wq2-32h4-9hc9: AWS Advanced Go Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL Instance

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AWS Advanced Go Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL Instance

Package

gomod github.com/aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper/awssql (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.1.1

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 customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Go Wrapper to 2025-10-17.

Source of Vulnerability Report:

Allistair Ishmael Hakim allistair.hakim@gmail.com

Affected products & versions:

AWS Go Wrapper < 2025-10-17.

Platforms:

MacOS/Windows/Linux

References

• GHSA-7wq2-32h4-9hc9
• aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper#270
• aws/aws-advanced-go-wrapper@7b405f9

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Nov 13, 2025

Last updated

Nov 13, 2025

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