CVE-2025-12819 (GCVE-0-2025-12819)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-03 19:00
Modified
2025-12-27 16:04
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a PgBouncer Version: 0   ≤
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