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Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-41889

CVE-2026-41889

jackc pgx — pgx: SQL Injection via placeholder confusion with dollar quoted string literals

EPSS 0.4%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
35
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 29.2.292 × 205.8No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

pgx is a PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go. Prior to version 5.9.2, SQL injection can occur when the non-default simple protocol is used, a dollar quoted string literal is used in the SQL query, that string literal contains text that would be would be interpreted as a placeholder outside of a string literal, and the value of that placeholder is controllable by the attacker. This issue has been patched in version 5.9.2.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
pgx< 5.9.2–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)2.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

refgithub.com/jackc/pgx/security/advisories/GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwxrefgithub.com/jackc/pgx/commit/60644f84918a8af66d14a4b0d865d4edafd955darefgithub.com/jackc/pgx/releases/tag/v5.9.2