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CVE-2026-53572

KEDA: PostgreSQL connection string parameter injection via incomplete whitespace escaping PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to 2.20.0, pkg/scalers/postgresql_scaler.go constructs libpq-style connection strings from tenant-controlled host, port, userName, dbName, sslmode, and password values, while escapePostgreConnectionParameter() only quotes values containing a literal space. Tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs, quotes, and backslashes can therefore create additional key-value tokens when pgx parses the string. An attacker able to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication or ScaledObject can inject host or sslmode parameters, redirect the database connection to an attacker-controlled server, expose credentials, or disable intended TLS protection. This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
kedacore / kedaaffected < 2.20.0

CWE

CWE-74, CWE-89

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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