CVE-2026-53572

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53572
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53572.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-53572
Aliases
Downstream
AZL (1)
CGA (70)
MINI (8)
openSUSE (1)
Related
Published
2026-08-21T20:11:56Z
Modified
2026-10-16T02:30:37Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
KEDA: PostgreSQL connection string parameter injection via incomplete whitespace escaping
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-74",
        "CWE-89"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53572.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kedacore/keda

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kedacore/keda
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5322ecb9c19fb37e59344afbb388471d40efc0d8
Fixed
703de9dec86cb25b6ecfa4948880a90487344d3f
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "2.20.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "703de9dec86cb25b6ecfa4948880a90487344d3f"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v2.20.0",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "5322ecb9c19fb37e59344afbb388471d40efc0d8"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.5.0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0-beta
v2.0.0-rc
v2.0.0-rc2
v2.1.0
v2.10.0
v2.11.0
v2.12.0
v2.13.0
v2.14.0
v2.15.0
v2.16.0
v2.17.0
v2.18.0
v2.19.0
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.4.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.9.0
v2.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-53572.json"