CVE-2026-6668 (GCVE-0-2026-6668)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-23 16:04 – Updated: 2026-09-23 16:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in packet buffer growth in PgBouncer
Summary
Integer overflow in the packet buffer growth logic in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Sufficiently large input makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is killed. Both unauthenticated and authenticated code paths can reach the overflow.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-23 16:33 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
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