FKIE_CVE-2026-53572

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-21 21:16 - Updated: 2026-09-25 14:10
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to 2.20.0, pkg/scalers/postgresql_scaler.go constructs libpq-style connection strings from tenant-controlled host, port, userName, dbName, sslmode, and password values, while escapePostgreConnectionParameter() only quotes values containing a literal space. Tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs, quotes, and backslashes can therefore create additional key-value tokens when pgx parses the string. An attacker able to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication or ScaledObject can inject host or sslmode parameters, redirect the database connection to an attacker-controlled server, expose credentials, or disable intended TLS protection. This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kedacore/keda/commit/703de9dec86cb25b6ecfa4948880a90487344d3f
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7784
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7787
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.20.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kedacore/keda/security/advisories/GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/kedacore/keda/security/advisories/GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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