Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2026

CVE-2026-116322

Description

Improper locking in PostgreSQL startup processing allows an unauthenticated network client to trigger a server restart, via arranging for authentication_timeout to arrive while it holds a spinlock during cancel handling. Within major version 18, minor versions before PostgreSQL 18.7 are affected. Versions before PostgreSQL 18 are unaffected.

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Affected products

PostgreSQL/PostgreSQLllm-fuzzy
Range: <18.7

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References

www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2026-116322/nvd

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