CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-103223

8.2 HIGH Published 2026-10-15 Modified 2026-10-20 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-10-15
Last modified
2026-10-20
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-789

Description

In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.34] or [5.0.0,5.0.12] or [5.1.0,5.1.9] or [5.2.0, 5.2.0], the PostgreSQL message decoder reads the 4-byte message length field from the PostgreSQL wire protocol without any maximum validation. A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle PostgreSQL server can send a message header with the length field set to an extremely large value (up to Integer.MAX_VALUE), causing the decoder to accumulate subsequent TCP data into a composite buffer without bound, leading to unbounded memory allocation on the client and an out-of-memory crash. This occurs before authentication completes. The impacted component is io.vertx:vertx-pg-client.

Affected configurations

• eclipse vert.x (>= 4.5.0 < 4.5.35) • eclipse vert.x (>= 5.0.0 < 5.1.10) • eclipse vert.x 5.2.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness

References