High

AWS Advanced NodeJS Wrapper: Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL instance

  • Disclosed: 13.11.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

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 that customers upgrade to the following version: AWS NodeJS Wrapper to v2.0.1.

Source of Vulnerability Report:

Allistair Ishmael Hakim allistair.hakim@gmail.com

Affected products & versions:

AWS NodeJS Wrapper < 2.0.1.

Platforms:

MacOS/Windows/Linux

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper < 2.0.1 2.0.1

References

CVSS score 8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-470
Platform
npm
Package
aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper
Disclosed
13.11.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-8wj8-cfxr-9374 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: aws-advanced-nodejs-wrapper

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