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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-14672 (MEDIUM 5.3) — Observable response discrepancy in PostgreSQL SCRAM authentication allows an unauthenticated user to test the existence of a user via observing the SCRAM iteration count. This requires the probed user to have a non-default scram_iterations count, because the authentication chall

[NVD] CVE-2026-14672 (MEDIUM 5.3) — Observable response discrepancy in PostgreSQL SCRAM authentication allows an unauthenticated user to test the existence of a user via observing the SCRAM iteration count. This requires the probed user to have a non-default scram_iterations count, because the authentication chall

mednvdPublished 2026-08-13

CVE-2026-14672 CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-13T13:17:44.653

Observable response discrepancy in PostgreSQL SCRAM authentication allows an unauthenticated user to test the existence of a user via observing the SCRAM iteration count. This requires the probed user to have a non-default scram_iterations count, because the authentication challenge for a nonexistent user reports the default scra

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CVE-2026-14672cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14672