CVE-2026-54291CWE-636CWE-757

Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms

High · published July 6, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to plain SCRAM-SHA-256 without it, losing the man-in-the-middle protection the setting is meant to guarantee. An attacker who can intercept the TLS connection can trigger the downgrade with a certificate whose signature algorithm has no tls-server-end-point channel-binding hash, because the bundled com.ongres.scram:scram-client returns an empty byte array instead of failing and pgJDBC ScramAuthenticator checks only that the server advertised a PLUS mechanism, without rejecting the empty binding or checking that the negotiated mechanism uses channel binding. This issue is fixed in version 42.7.12.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.00236 · 13.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-636 · Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open'); CWE-757 · Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')
Published
2026-07-06T18:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 18:55Z
    Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms
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