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ghsa-jh4v-gqwq-hfrr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:21

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

When PgBouncer is configured to use "cert" authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of TLS certificate verification and encryption. This flaw affects PgBouncer versions prior to 1.16.1.

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CVE-2021-3935 (GCVE-0-2021-3935)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-11-22 15:59

Modified

2025-11-03 19:26

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-89

Summary

When PgBouncer is configured to use "cert" authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of TLS certificate verification and encryption. This flaw affects PgBouncer versions prior to 1.16.1.

References

URL

Tags

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021251	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-116x	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNPCV3KRDI5PLLLKADFVIOHACQJLZMLI/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00016.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	pgbouncer	Version: PgBouncer 1.16.1

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