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CVE-2026-41889

36
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 8, 2026Last modified: May 8, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jackc:pgx:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

2.3LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 6th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/jackc/pgx/v5Fixed in: 5.9.2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21554-17084Fixed in: 2.14.1-15
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21502-17084Fixed in: 2.14.1-15
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 keda 2.14.1-15 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.14.1-15
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 keda 2.14.1-14 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.14.1-15
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 telegraf 1.31.0-22 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.31.0-22
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21395-17084Fixed in: 1.31.0-22

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2026-May/CVE-2026-41889Low

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

May 7, 2026
goGHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwxlow

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

Apr 22, 2026

References

github.com / jackc/pgx/commit/60644f84918a8af66d14a4b0d865d4edafd955da
Patch
github.com / jackc/pgx/releases/tag/v5.9.2
Release Notes
github.com / jackc/pgx/security/advisories/GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx
MitigationVendor Advisory