CVE-2026-42198

postgresql-jdbc: pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver

CVE-2026-42198 is fixed in 3 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2026:52928, released April 29, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.5
important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0326
88th percentile

pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. From version 42.2.0 to before version 42.7.11, pgjdbc is vulnerable to a client-side denial of service during SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. A malicious server can instruct the driver to perform SCRAM authentication with a very large iteration count. With a large enough value, the client spends an unbounded amount of CPU time inside PBKDF2 before authentication can fail. A single attempt ties up a CPU core. Repeated or concurrent attempts exhaust client CPU and can wedge connection pools. In affected versions, loginTimeout did not fully mitigate this problem. When loginTimeout expired, the caller could stop waiting, but the worker thread performing the connection attempt could continue running and burning CPU inside the SCRAM PBKDF2 computation. This issue has been patched in version 42.7.11.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libpgjava · Debian 14 42.7.11-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42198 May 15, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · RHEL 10 42.7.1-7.el10_0.1 RHSA-2026:52928 Apr 29, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · RHEL 8 0:42.2.14-4.el8_10 RHSA-2026:25030 Jun 24, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · RHEL 9 0:42.2.28-2.el9_8.2 RHSA-2026:22304 Jun 24, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · almalinux 10 42.7.2-1.el10_2.2 ALSA-2026:24348 Jun 8, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · almalinux 8 42.2.14-4.el8_10 ALSA-2026:25030 Jun 10, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · almalinux 9 42.2.28-2.el9_8.2 ALSA-2026:22304 Jun 1, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · ol 10 0:42.7.2-1.el10_2.2 ELSA-2026-24348 Jul 16, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · ol 8 0:42.2.14-4.el8_10 ELSA-2026-25030 Jun 10, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · ol 9 0:42.2.28-2.el9_8.2 ELSA-2026-22304 Jun 23, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · rocky 10 0:42.7.2-1.el10_2.2 RLSA-2026:24348 Jun 11, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · rocky 8 0:42.2.14-4.el8_10 RLSA-2026:25030 Jun 11, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · rocky 9 0:42.2.28-2.el9_8.2 RLSA-2026:22304 Jun 2, 2026
postgresql-jdbc · sles 16.0 42.7.7-160000.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22000-1 May 29, 2026
postgresql-jdbc-javadoc · RHEL 8 0:42.2.14-4.el8_10 RHSA-2026:25030 Jun 24, 2026
postgresql-jdbc-javadoc · almalinux 8 42.2.14-4.el8_10 ALSA-2026:25030 Jun 10, 2026
postgresql-jdbc-javadoc · ol 8 0:42.2.14-4.el8_10 ELSA-2026-25030 Jun 10, 2026

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