CVE-2026-54291

Description

pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to plain SCRAM-SHA-256 without it, losing the man-in-the-middle protection the setting is meant to guarantee. An attacker who can intercept the TLS connection can trigger the downgrade with a certificate whose signature algorithm has no tls-server-end-point channel-binding hash, because the bundled com.ongres.scram:scram-client returns an empty byte array instead of failing and pgJDBC ScramAuthenticator checks only that the server advertised a PLUS mechanism, without rejecting the empty binding or checking that the negotiated mechanism uses channel binding. This issue is fixed in version 42.7.12.

How to fix CVE-2026-54291

To remediate CVE-2026-54291, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 42.7.12 or later

Is CVE-2026-54291 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• >= 42.7.4, < 42.7.12

CVSS scores

References (4)

• WEBgithub.com/ongres/scram/releases/tag/3.3
• WEBgithub.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/commit/77df98e4e66c12936ded3478a0954f6f580bad99
• WEBgithub.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-j92g-9f8w-j867
• WEBnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54291