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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2026-6669

Unbounded SCRAM iteration count causes CPU exhaustion in PgBouncer

Description

Missing upper bound on the key derivation iteration count accepted during SCRAM authentication to a backend server in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows a malicious or compromised PostgreSQL backend to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption in PgBouncer. The resulting key derivation cannot be interrupted in frontend builds such as PgBouncer. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, one backend can in this way stop it from serving traffic for every other database and client it is pooling, so the failure of a single backend is not contained.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n/a PgBouncer

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 1.25.2affected

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