PostgreSQL bug bounty programs
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PostgreSQL runs two public programs: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500 and a self-hosted disclosure program with no cash rewards.
- Top reward
- $1,500
- Sorona
- Programs
- 2
- 1 pays cash
- Targets in scope
- 24
- 5 types, deduplicated
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
2 programs, side by side. Report where the affected target is in scope; when two programs cover it, pick the one that pays more.
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PostgreSQL
Sorona · Pays the most of the 2 programs: up to $1,500.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
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PostgreSQL
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 (highest) | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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PostgreSQL
Self-hosted · Disclosure only |
– | – | – | – | No cash | – | – | – | Open |
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- Low
- $100 (highest)
- Safe harbor
- Partial
Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. Green marks the highest per severity. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.
What is in scope
24 targets across all 2 programs, each listed once with the programs that cover it. 7 excluded.
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Actively supported major versions only: 18, 17, 16, 15, and 14, with fixes shipped in scheduled minor releases.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Authentication and authorization machinery: pg_hba.conf processing, SCRAM/MD5/password auth, GSSAPI/Kerberos, LDAP, RADIUS, and SSL/TLS certificate auth, plus the role and privilege system, row-level security (RLS), GRANT/REVOKE handling, and SECURITY DEFINER functions.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Bundled contrib and extension modules such as postgres_fdw, dblink, pg_stat_statements, adminpack, sepgsql, and the cube/hstore/ltree parsers.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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In-family projects covered by the umbrella Security Team, including pgAdmin, PgBouncer, the JDBC and ODBC drivers, and pgvector.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Official installers and packaging across RPM, DEB, and the Windows and macOS builds.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Privilege-boundary escapes through search_path manipulation, SECURITY DEFINER function abuse, RLS bypass, or extension-installation vectors that hand a user rights they should not hold.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Server-side procedural languages, PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, and PL/Tcl, especially trusted-language sandbox escapes.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The core server backend (postmaster and per-connection backend): SQL parser, planner, executor, storage engine, WAL and replication paths, and memory management, where a flaw lets someone reach data or privileges they were never granted or run arbitrary code inside a PostgreSQL process.
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The libpq client library, including connection-string parsing and TLS/certificate handling (validation gaps, downgrade attacks).
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.
Out of scope 7
Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.
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Anything only a superuser can trigger; superusers hold full administrative privilege by design, so their actions are not treated as vulnerabilities.
Sorona
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Denial-of-service caused by an authenticated user running an otherwise valid SQL statement; file these as ordinary bugs, not security reports.
Sorona
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Findings in the related ecosystem projects that should go directly to their own security contacts when they fall outside the core team's remit.
Sorona
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Non-security functional bugs, which belong in the normal bug-report channel rather than the security queue.
Sorona
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The intentional absence of DMARC on the project mailing lists.
Sorona
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the lack of DMARC on postgresql.org mailing lists
Self-hosted
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Unsupported major versions (13 and earlier) that no longer receive security patches.
Sorona
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every PostgreSQL program, newest first.
No changes recorded yet. New targets and reward moves show up here and in the RSS feed.
Recent CVEs
Published vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL products, from the NVD.
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CVE-2026-6470 Medium
Missing authorization in PostgreSQL DDL commands allows an object creator to achieve denial of service against ALTER and DROP of the type, via creating a dependency on the type. Many DDL operations did check the privilege, but assigning a range subtype and referencing the type from an SQL expression did not. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.
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CVE-2026-6471 High
Missing authorization in PostgreSQL logical decoding allows a non-superuser holding REPLICATION privilege to dlopen any file visible to the operating system account running the server, via the choice of logical decoding plugin. This in turn runs arbitrary code as that account. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.
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CVE-2026-6471 High
Missing authorization in PostgreSQL logical decoding allows a non-superuser holding REPLICATION privilege to dlopen any file visible to the operating system account running the server, via the choice of logical decoding plugin. This in turn runs arbitrary code as that account. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.
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CVE-2026-6470 Medium
Missing authorization in PostgreSQL DDL commands allows an object creator to achieve denial of service against ALTER and DROP of the type, via creating a dependency on the type. Many DDL operations did check the privilege, but assigning a range subtype and referencing the type from an SQL expression did not. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are affected.
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CVE-2026-6464 High
Untrusted data inclusion in PostgreSQL psql COPY may allow a server administrator to elicit execution of data lines as psql commands, via error injection. If the "COPY FROM STDIN" or "\copy FROM STDIN" command fails before the server indicates that it awaits input rows, psql processes the in-line data rows as psql commands. "COPY FROM" with a filename is unaffected. The server administrator has no
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CVE-2026-6464 High
Untrusted data inclusion in PostgreSQL psql COPY may allow a server administrator to elicit execution of data lines as psql commands, via error injection. If the "COPY FROM STDIN" or "\copy FROM STDIN" command fails before the server indicates that it awaits input rows, psql processes the in-line data rows as psql commands. "COPY FROM" with a filename is unaffected. The server administrator has no
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CVE-2026-6469 Low
Incorrect ownership assignment in PostgreSQL ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE command reassigns ownership of dependent statistics objects to the current user. This wrongly allows the table owner to run DROP STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS via this improper ownership. It wrongly denies those commands to the prior statistics object owner. DROP TABLE remains able to remove statistics objects, so this exploit a
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CVE-2026-6469 Low
Incorrect ownership assignment in PostgreSQL ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE command reassigns ownership of dependent statistics objects to the current user. This wrongly allows the table owner to run DROP STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS via this improper ownership. It wrongly denies those commands to the prior statistics object owner. DROP TABLE remains able to remove statistics objects, so this exploit a
About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under postgresql.org: platform programs, self-hosted policies and security.txt contacts. Each program's own policy decides what is in scope and what it pays; check it before you test.
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