CVE-2026-41889pgx: SQL Injection via placeholder confusion with dollar quoted string literals

Description

pgx is a PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go. Prior to version 5.9.2, 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, and the value of that placeholder is controllable by the attacker. This issue has been patched in version 5.9.2.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://github.com/jackc/pgx/security/advisories/GHSA-j88v-2chj-qfwx MitigationVendor Advisory
• https://github.com/jackc/pgx/commit/60644f84918a8af66d14a4b0d865d4edafd955da Patch
• https://github.com/jackc/pgx/releases/tag/v5.9.2 Release Notes