CVE-2026-42198 in PostgreSQL JDBC 42.7.*
pgjdbc: Unbounded PBKDF2 iterations in SCRAM authentication allows CPU exhaustion DoS
- Severity
- High 7.5
- Exploitation
-
3% chance of exploit
in the next 30 days - Fix
- Update to 42.7.11
- Where
- Test dependency
- How it matched
- Approximate – version line, checked against its .0 release
- Also known as
- BIT-postgresql-jdbc-driver-2026-42198, GHSA-98qh-xjc8-98pq
- First seen
- 2026-11-05 01:13:58 UTC
- Source
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-98qh-xjc8-98pq