CVE-2025-2291

HIGHNVD 8.18.1—Trending — 5 sources updated this week

8.1

Password can be used past expiry in PgBouncer due to auth_query not taking into account Postgres its VALID UNTIL value, which allows an attacker to log in with an already expired password

CVSS v3: 8.1
EG Score: 8.1(medium)
EPSS: 17.4%
KEV: Not listed

Published

April 16, 2025

Last Modified

December 8, 2025

References (2)

f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html#pgbouncer-124x
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00032.html

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

CWE-324

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Microsoft MSRCCVE-2025-22912025-04-23
PgBouncer default auth_query does not take Postgres password expiry into account

Data Freshness Timeline

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Every time one of our enrichment pipelines (NVD, MITRE cvelistV5, EPSS, CISA KEV, GHSA, OSV, vendor advisories) ran against this CVE. Most recent first.

2026-06-02 20:12 UTCepss_batch
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2026-05-30 07:17 UTCEG score recompute
2026-05-30 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
2026-05-30 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
2026-05-29 15:27 UTCOSV refresh
2026-05-29 13:44 UTCepss_batch

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-2291?

CVE-2025-2291 is a high vulnerability published on April 16, 2025. Password can be used past expiry in PgBouncer due to auth_query not taking into account Postgres its VALID UNTIL value, which allows an attacker to log in with an already expired password

When was CVE-2025-2291 disclosed?

CVE-2025-2291 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 16, 2025, with the most recent update on December 8, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2025-2291 actively exploited?

CVE-2025-2291 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 17.4% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-2291?

CVE-2025-2291 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (NVD).

How do I remediate CVE-2025-2291?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-2291, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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