CVE-2025-2291 (GCVE-0-2025-2291)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-16 18:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:42
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-324 - Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date
Summary
Password can be used past expiry in PgBouncer due to auth_query not taking into account Postgres its VALID UNTIL value, which allows an attacker to log in with an already expired password
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a PgBouncer Version: 0   ≤
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