Critical 9.8Published May 8, 2026

CVE-2026-41889pgx is a PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:10 UTC)

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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.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-89
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

jackc pgx jackc:pgx	before 5.9.2	NVD

References

https://github.com/jackc/pgx/commit/60644f84918a8af66d14a4b0d865d4edafd955dapatch
https://github.com/jackc/pgx/releases/tag/v5.9.2release-notes
https://github.com/jackc/pgx/security/advisories/GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwxmitigation, vendor-advisory

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