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Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service
Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service
Affected packages
- postgres-protocol
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- —
- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://crates.io/crates/postgres-protocol
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0179.html
- https://github.com/rust-postgres/rust-postgres/commit/d40097a36a85068ea50a3afbf0ce154ba439e7f0
- https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-98qh-xjc8-98pq
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2026-0179
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