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CVE-2026-6668: Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in packet buffer growth in PgBouncer

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-09-23
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the packet buffer growth logic in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Sufficiently large input makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is killed. Both unauthenticated and authenticated code paths can reach the overflow.

Affected products

• PgBouncer: through 1.25.2

References

• https://www.pgbouncer.org/changelog.html

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