CVE-2026-41889

LOW

pgx: SQL Injection via placeholder confusion with dollar quoted string literals

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

pgx is a PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go. Prior to version 5.9.2, SQL injection can occur when the non-default simple protocol is used, a dollar quoted string literal is used in the SQL query, that string literal contains text that would be would be interpreted as a placeholder outside of a string literal, and the value of that placeholder is controllable by the attacker. This issue has been patched in version 5.9.2.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v4 2.3
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.9%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-89
Status published
Products (1)
jackc/pgx < 5.9.2
Published May 08, 2026
Tracked Since May 08, 2026