Upstream information

CVE-2026-42198 at MITRE

Description

pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. From version 42.2.0 to before version 42.7.11, pgjdbc is vulnerable to a client-side denial of service during SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. A malicious server can instruct the driver to perform SCRAM authentication with a very large iteration count. With a large enough value, the client spends an unbounded amount of CPU time inside PBKDF2 before authentication can fail. A single attempt ties up a CPU core. Repeated or concurrent attempts exhaust client CPU and can wedge connection pools. In affected versions, loginTimeout did not fully mitigate this problem. When loginTimeout expired, the caller could stop waiting, but the worker thread performing the connection attempt could continue running and burning CPU inside the SCRAM PBKDF2 computation. This issue has been patched in version 42.7.11.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Pending

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub) SUSE
Base Score 7.5 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1264174 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 postgresql-jdbc Affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP6 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS Extended Security postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE Manager Server Module 4.2 postgresql-jdbc Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 postgresql-jdbc Not affected
openSUSE Leap 15.3 postgresql-jdbc Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.4 postgresql-jdbc Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.5 postgresql-jdbc Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 postgresql-jdbc Affected
Container Status
suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server
suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-attestation
suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server
suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-attestation
suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/server
suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/server-attestation
postgresql-jdbcAffected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Apr 29 21:16:08 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 15:16:19 2026