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MEDIUMCVSS 6.9

GHSA-3gjw-f78c-vvpw

tokio-postgres: Panic on a `DataRow` with fewer fields than columns allows denial of service

Published
2026-08-24
Modified
2026-08-24
Sources
github-advisory

Summary

A malicious or compromised server can send a row containing fewer fields than its row description declares columns. Reading one of the missing columns then panics with an out-of-bounds index, aborting the calling task. This affects even the otherwise non-panicking `try_get`, and both `Row` and `SimpleQueryRow`. 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 packages

EcosystemPackageAffected versionsFixed versions
rusttokio-postgres0.7.18

Remediation: Upgrade to 0.7.18 or later.

References

Includes data from the GitHub Advisory Database, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.