22-Year-Old PostgreSQL Bug Turned into Remote Code Execution

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If you had told me in April 2026 one question “Mehmet, can we use managed PostgreSQL for this project?” would send me into the deepest rabbit hole of my life, I would have laughed. Months later, I finally found the bottom of that rabbit hole. It was a 22-year-old zero-day in PostgreSQL core. In this […]

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Months later, I finally found the bottom of that rabbit hole. It was a 22-year-old zero-day in PostgreSQL core.

In this blog post you will read a story of how I ended up uncovering a new class of type-confusion vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL.

This is the 3rd part of blog post series named “ Systemic Risks in the Managed PostgreSQL Industry ”. For those who have missed the first two part, feel free to start from 1st and 2nd which will give you a complete context of this madness.

I gave PostgreSQL a value inside a composite type, changed the type of one of its fields, and asked it to read the value back. That type confusion led to one of the most reliable memory-corruption exploit I have seen. But I did not start by looking for a PostgreSQL core vulnerability.

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