highVulnerability
GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle server can supply an arbitrarily large SCRAM-SHA-256 PBKDF2 iteration count during authentication. The client runs it inline with no upper bound, pinning a `tokio` worker thread for minutes per connection, possibly stalling the whole async runtime. Applications that connect only to a trusted database are not exposed; the risk applies to clients that may connect to untrusted or user-supplied servers, or whose connection can be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
- severity
- high
- summary
- postgres-protocol: Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service
- cve_id
- GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
- is_ghsa_only
- true
- ghsa_published
- 2026-08-24T19:43:31Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-08-24T19:43:32Z
Related Entities (4)
VULNERABLE_TO (1)
←[Software]rust/postgres-protocol
AFFECTS (1)
→[Software]rust/postgres-protocol
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
REPORTED_BY (1)
→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database
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