CVE-2025-12819
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.18%Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer
Published: 12/3/2025Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Untrusted search path in auth_query connection handler in PgBouncer before 1.25.1 allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL during authentication via a malicious search_path parameter in the StartupMessage.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/pgbouncerfrom 0, < 1.25.1
- Debian/pgbouncerfrom 0, < 1.15.0-1+deb11u2
- Debian/pgbouncerfrom 0, < 1.15.0-1+deb11u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |