HIGHCVSS 8.7
GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
postgres-protocol: Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service
Summary
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 packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| rust | postgres-protocol | — | 0.6.12 |
Remediation: Upgrade to 0.6.12 or later.
References
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