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AIKIDO-2026-403089

postgres-protocol is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Jun 15, 2026

69

Medium Risk

This Affects:

RUSTpostgres-protocol
0.0.0 - 0.6.11
Fixed in 0.6.12
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TL;DR

A malicious or compromised server can return a binary hstore value with an invalid internal length field, causing the client to panic while decoding it.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and if its possible connect to untrusted or user-supplied servers.

Background info

postgres-protocol is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.0 - 0.6.11.

How to fix this

Upgrade the postgres-protocol library to the patch version.

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