Out-of-Bounds Affecting pgbouncer/pgbouncer package, versions [,1.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.13% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PGBOUNCERPGBOUNCER-16748777
  • published1 Jun 2026
  • disclosed18 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4575  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pgbouncer/pgbouncer to version 1.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The add_database function in objects.c in the pgbouncer pooler 1.5.2 for PostgreSQL allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a long database name in a request.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1