{"id":"CVE-2026-6669","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-6669","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:48:29.746Z","title":"Missing upper bound on the key derivation iteration count accepted during SCRAM authentication to a backend server in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows a malicious or compromised PostgreSQL backend to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption in PgBouncer.","description":"Missing upper bound on the key derivation iteration count accepted during SCRAM authentication to a backend server in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows a malicious or compromised PostgreSQL backend to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption in PgBouncer. The resulting key derivation cannot be interrupted in frontend builds such as PgBouncer. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, one backend can in this way stop it from serving traffic for every other database and client it is pooling, so the failure of a single backend is not contained.","published":"2026-09-23T17:17:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-23T19:40:10.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.0042,"percentile":0.36084,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-24","score":0.00314,"percentile":0.21617}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-23T17:17:16.000Z","detail":{"score":"5.9","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-09-23T17:17:16.223Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 5.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html","source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6669","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}