{"id":78479,"date":"2026-05-14T17:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6478-postgresql-discloses-md5-hashed-passwords-via-covert-timing-channel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:16:25","slug":"cve-2026-6478-postgresql-discloses-md5-hashed-passwords-via-covert-timing-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6478-postgresql-discloses-md5-hashed-passwords-via-covert-timing-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-6478 &#8211; PostgreSQL discloses MD5-hashed passwords via covert timing channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-6478<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 14, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Covert timing channel in comparison of MD5-hashed password in PostgreSQL authentication allows an attacker to recover user credentials sufficient to authenticate.  This does not affect scram-sha-256 passwords, the default in all supported releases.  However, current databases may have MD5-hashed passwords originating in upgrades from PostgreSQL 13 or earlier.  Versions before PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 are affected.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM<\/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-2026-6478 Published : May 14, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 42\u00a0minutes ago Description :Covert timing channel in comparison of MD5-hashed password in PostgreSQL authentication allows an attacker to recover user credentials sufficient to authenticate. This does not affect scram-sha-256 passwords, the default in all supported releases. However, current databases may have MD5-hashed passwords originating &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-78479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78479","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=78479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}