Privilege escalation via unquoted metadata parameters
Published Dec 24, 2024 · Updated Oct 14, 2025
SQL injection in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver 2.1.0.31 allows remote authenticated users to escalate database privileges via metadata APIs. The getSchemas, getTables, and getColumns paths compose metadata commands from unquoted identifiers or literals instead of parameterized inputs. Exploitation requires database access and a caller that passes attacker-controlled metadata arguments; successful injection executes SQL with the session's database privileges.
Summary
What happened
SQL injection in Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver 2.1.0.31 allows remote authenticated users to escalate database privileges via metadata APIs. The getSchemas, getTables, and getColumns paths compose metadata commands from unquoted identifiers or literals instead of parameterized inputs. Exploitation requires database access and a caller that passes attacker-controlled metadata arguments; successful injection executes SQL with the session's database privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-12744
- Published
- Dec 24, 2024
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services
- Product
- Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver
- Classifications
- CWE-89
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 24, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.1.0.31
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