CVE-2026-54291 PUBLISHED

Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 12.06.2026 Published: 06.07.2026 Updated: 06.07.2026

pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to plain SCRAM-SHA-256 without it, losing the man-in-the-middle protection the setting is meant to guarantee. An attacker who can intercept the TLS connection can trigger the downgrade with a certificate whose signature algorithm has no tls-server-end-point channel-binding hash, because the bundled com.ongres.scram:scram-client returns an empty byte array instead of failing and pgJDBC ScramAuthenticator checks only that the server advertised a PLUS mechanism, without rejecting the empty binding or checking that the negotiated mechanism uses channel binding. This issue is fixed in version 42.7.12.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor pgjdbc
Product pgjdbc
Versions
  • Version >= 42.7.4, < 42.7.12 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-636: Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') CWE
  • CWE-757: Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade') CWE