GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6wHighDisclosed before NVD

postgres-protocol: Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service

Published
August 24, 2026
Last Modified
August 24, 2026

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/postgres-protocol:>= 0.3.0, < 0.6.12

🔗 References (4)