CVE-2026-6667 (GCVE-0-2026-6667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-09 00:43 – Updated: 2026-05-11 14:44
VLAI
Title
PgBouncer missing authorization check in KILL_CLIENT admin command
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.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a PgBouncer Affected: 0 , < 1.25.2 (semver)
Credits
Thanks to HarutoKimura for finding and reporting this problem.
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