🛡️ CVE-2026-54711 — pghoard

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

PGHoard: Password written to debug log

Impact

When using .pgpass, database connection information including the username and password will be logged at the debug level.

Patches

Upgrade to version 2.7.1 or greater.

Workarounds

Filter out debug-level logs.

References

This issue was discovered by BugCrowd user DRAKOKORIAN.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-54711 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2026-54711 is recorded against 1 package.

  • pghoard

Timeline and source

Published on 18 June 2026 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-06-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pghoard — —

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