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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-12-06 11:44

Modified

2025-12-28 12:07

Summary

Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer

Details

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.

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    {
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        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "pgbouncer",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/pgbouncer"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.25.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-12819"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
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    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-pgbouncer-2025-12819",
  "modified": "2025-12-28T12:07:40.562Z",
  "published": "2025-12-06T11:44:20.875Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12819"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-125x"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/12/msg00033.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer"
}

CVE-2025-12819 (GCVE-0-2025-12819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 19:00 – Updated: 2025-12-27 16:04

Title

Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer

Summary

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path

Assigner

PostgreSQL

References

URL

Tags

https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-125x

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	PgBouncer	Affected: 0 , < 1.25.1 (semver)

Credits

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

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          "value": "track_extra_parameters includes search_path (non-default configuration) AND auth_user is set to a non-empty string (non-default configuration) AND auth_query is configured without fully-qualified object names (default configuration, the \u003c operator is not schema qualified)"
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-12819 (GCVE-0-2025-12819)

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