CVE-2025-12819 | THREATINT

Description

Untrusted search path in auth_query connection handler in PgBouncer before 1.25.1 allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL during authentication via a malicious search_path parameter in the StartupMessage.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-06 | Published 2025-12-03 | Updated 2025-12-03 | Assigner PostgreSQL

HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

Untrusted Search Path

Credits

Thanks to Jason Tsang of Snowflake Inc. for finding this issue. finder

References

www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-12819)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12819)

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