CVE-2026-41889: pgx: SQL Injection via placeholder confusion with dollar quoted string literals
(updated )
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.
- The value of that placeholder is controllable by the attacker.
e.g.
attackValue := `$tag$; drop table canary; --`
_, err = tx.Exec(ctx, `select $tag$ $1 $tag$, $1`, pgx.QueryExecModeSimpleProtocol, attackValue)
This is unlikely to occur outside of a contrived scenario.
References
Code Behaviors & Features
Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-41889 with GitLab Dependency Scanning
Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Dependency Scanning using SBOM also detects vulnerabilities from proprietary advisories that this site does not include. Learn more about Dependency Scanning using SBOM →