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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-12819 json

Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer

published 2025-12-03 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also BIT-pgbouncer-2025-12819 , EUVD-2025-201089

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Untrusted search path in auth_query connection handler in PgBouncer before 1.25.1 allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL during authentication via a malicious search_path parameter in the StartupMessage.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami pgbouncer 1.25.1
  • n/a PgBouncer 1.25.1
  • pgbouncer Debian 12 1.18.0-1+deb12u1
  • pgbouncer Debian 13 1.24.1-1+deb13u1
  • pgbouncer Debian 14 1.25.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-12819

  • pgbouncer Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 1.25.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-12819

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pgbouncer CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.25.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-71249AZL-71438

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-12819 updated cvss 7.1

pgbouncer: Untrusted search path in auth_query connection in PgBouncer

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
11 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami pgbouncer
<1.25.1
1.25.1

Affected products

  • n/a PgBouncer

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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