Cyber Posture

CVE-2026-6665

High

Published: 09 May 2026

Published
09 May 2026
Modified
09 May 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0002 4.3th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-6665 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Pgbouncer (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 4.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NVD Description

The SCRAM code in PgBouncer before 1.25.2 did not check the return value of strlcat() correctly when building the contents of the SCRAM client-final-message. A malicious backend that sends a SCRAM server-final-message with a long nonce can trigger a stack…

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overflow.

Deeper analysisAI

Automated synthesis unavailable for this CVE.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

Pgbouncer
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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References