FKIE_CVE-2021-3935

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-11-22 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:06
Severity
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
When PgBouncer is configured to use "cert" authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of TLS certificate verification and encryption. This flaw affects PgBouncer versions prior to 1.16.1.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttp://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-116xRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021251Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNPCV3KRDI5PLLLKADFVIOHACQJLZMLI/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-116xRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021251Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00032.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNPCV3KRDI5PLLLKADFVIOHACQJLZMLI/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pgbouncer pgbouncer *
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
fedoraproject fedora 35
debian debian_linux 9.0
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