Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting pgpool package, versions [,4.2.22)[4.3.0,4.3.15)[4.4.0,4.4.12)[4.5.0,4.5.7)[4.6.0,4.6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PGPOOL-10575545
  • published2 Jul 2025
  • disclosed19 May 2025
  • creditTatsuo Ishii

Introduced: 19 May 2025

CVE-2025-46801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pgpool to version 4.2.22, 4.3.15, 4.4.12, 4.5.7, 4.6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness when the do_clear_text_password() function reveals information about the length of failed passwords. A user can use this information to brute force passwords of an unknown target user.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1