{"id":78478,"date":"2026-05-14T17:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6479-postgresql-ssl-gss-init-causes-denial-of-service-via-uncontrolled-recursion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:16:25","slug":"cve-2026-6479-postgresql-ssl-gss-init-causes-denial-of-service-via-uncontrolled-recursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6479-postgresql-ssl-gss-init-causes-denial-of-service-via-uncontrolled-recursion\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-6479 &#8211; PostgreSQL SSL\/GSS init causes denial of service, via uncontrolled recursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-6479<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 14, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Uncontrolled recursion in PostgreSQL SSL and GSS negotiation allows an attacker able to connect to a PostgreSQL AF_UNIX socket to achieve sustained denial of service.  If SSL and GSS are both disabled, an attacker can do the same via access to a PostgreSQL TCP socket.  Versions before PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 are affected.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.5 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-6479 Published : May 14, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago Description :Uncontrolled recursion in PostgreSQL SSL and GSS negotiation allows an attacker able to connect to a PostgreSQL AF_UNIX socket to achieve sustained denial of service. If SSL and GSS are both disabled, an attacker can do the same via access to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}