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pgbouncer -- failed auth_query lookup leads to connection as auth_user

Affected packages
pgbouncer = 1.6.0

Details

VuXML ID d76961da-56f6-11e5-934b-002590263bf5
Discovery 2015-09-03
Entry 2015-09-09

PgBouncer reports:

New auth_user functionality introduced in 1.6 allows login as auth_user when client presents unknown username. It's quite likely auth_user is superuser. Affects only setups that have enabled auth_user in their config.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-6817
URL http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/04/3
URL https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/issues/69
URL https://pgbouncer.github.io/2015/09/pgbouncer-1-6-1/