certfr_avis - certfr-2025-avi-1061

CERTFR-2025-AVI-1061

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: 2025-12-04 - Updated: 2025-12-04

Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans PostgreSQL PgBouncer. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une injection SQL (SQLi).

Solutions

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description
	PostgreSQL	PgBouncer	PgBouncer versions antérieures à 1.25.1

References

Title

Publication Time

Tags

Bulletin de sécurité PostgreSQL pgbouncer-1251-released-fixing-a-bunch-of-bugs-before-christmas-including-cve-2025-12819-3189

2025-12-03

vendor-advisory

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  "affected_systems": [
    {
      "description": "PgBouncer versions ant\u00e9rieures \u00e0 1.25.1 ",
      "product": {
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        "vendor": {
          "name": "PostgreSQL",
          "scada": false
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "affected_systems_content": "",
  "content": "## Solutions\n\nSe r\u00e9f\u00e9rer au bulletin de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l\u0027\u00e9diteur pour l\u0027obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).",
  "cves": [
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      "name": "CVE-2025-12819",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12819"
    }
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  "initial_release_date": "2025-12-04T00:00:00",
  "last_revision_date": "2025-12-04T00:00:00",
  "links": [],
  "reference": "CERTFR-2025-AVI-1061",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "description": "Version initiale",
      "revision_date": "2025-12-04T00:00:00.000000"
    }
  ],
  "risks": [
    {
      "description": "Injection SQL (SQLi)"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Une vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverte dans PostgreSQL PgBouncer. Elle permet \u00e0 un attaquant de provoquer une injection SQL (SQLi).",
  "title": "Vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 dans PostgreSQL PgBouncer",
  "vendor_advisories": [
    {
      "published_at": "2025-12-03",
      "title": "Bulletin de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 PostgreSQL pgbouncer-1251-released-fixing-a-bunch-of-bugs-before-christmas-including-cve-2025-12819-3189",
      "url": "https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbouncer-1251-released-fixing-a-bunch-of-bugs-before-christmas-including-cve-2025-12819-3189/"
    }
  ]
}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 19:00 – Updated: 2025-12-03 22:38

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.

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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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

CERTFR-2025-AVI-1061

Solutions

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

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Sightings

Nomenclature