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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2026-6667 json

PgBouncer missing authorization check in KILL_CLIENT admin command

published 2026-05-09 6 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-pgbouncer-2026-6667 , EUVD-2026-28879

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PgBouncer before 1.25.2 did not perform an appropriate authorization check for the KILL_CLIENT admin command. All users with access to the administration console (which itself requires authorization) could run this command. It would have been correct to allow only users listed in the admin_users parameter.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami pgbouncer 1.25.2
  • n/a PgBouncer 1.25.2
  • pgbouncer Debian 13 1.24.1-1+deb13u2
  • pgbouncer Debian 14 1.25.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6667

  • pgbouncer Azure Linux 3.0 1.25.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-86240

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-2026-6667 updated cvss 6.5

PgBouncer: PgBouncer: Denial of Service via improper authorization for KILL_CLIENT command

  • 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
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami pgbouncer
<1.25.2
1.25.2

Affected products

  • n/a PgBouncer

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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