CVE-2026-41889
pgx: SQL Injection via placeholder confusion with dollar quoted string literals
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.01%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2026-41889
To remediate CVE-2026-41889, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —no fix listed
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 5.9.2 or later
Is CVE-2026-41889 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0
- from 0, <= 3.6.2
- from 0, <= 4.18.3
- from 0, < 5.9.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |