PostgreSQL addresses a critical security vulnerability that persisted for over a decade, allowing replication role accounts to execute arbitrary code through logical decoding when WAL streaming is active. This CVE-2026-6471 patch closes a dangerous privilege escalation vector that could enable attackers with replication credentials to load malicious libraries and execute commands at the database server level, significantly enhancing the security posture of PostgreSQL deployments.

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