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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-10-01 09:30

Modified

2026-10-01 09:55

Summary

NULL pointer dereference in SCRAM client-final-message parsing in PgBouncer

Details

Missing validation of a mandatory attribute in the SCRAM client-final-message parser in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the process. A malformed message can make the parser report success while leaving a required value unset, which is then dereferenced as a NULL pointer. The crash occurs before any credential is verified, so no valid account is required. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this terminates every pooled connection.

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    "CVE-2026-19888"
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  "id": "BIT-pgbouncer-2026-19888",
  "modified": "2026-10-01T09:55:18.588Z",
  "published": "2026-10-01T09:30:57.797Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19888"
    },
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  "summary": "NULL pointer dereference in SCRAM client-final-message parsing in PgBouncer"
}

CVE-2026-19888 (GCVE-0-2026-19888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-23 16:04 – Updated: 2026-09-23 16:46

Title

NULL pointer dereference in SCRAM client-final-message parsing in PgBouncer

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-23 16:33 UTC

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

PostgreSQL redhat root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	PgBouncer	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.25.2 (semver)

Credits

Thanks to @mble for finding and reporting this issue. Independently reported by @thesecguy45. Independently reported by @umutbasal. Independently reported by @jackds-security. Independently reported by @palak-paneer. Independently reported by @shakirov-vm.

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