CVE-2026-53572

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 5.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: MODERATE) published 2026-07-07. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-64131 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q (GitHub Security Advisories) · GO-2026-5940 (OSV.dev)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to 2.20.0, pkg/scalers/postgresql_scaler.go constructs libpq-style connection strings from tenant-controlled host, port, userName, dbName, sslmode, and password values, while escapePostgreConnectionParameter() only quotes values containing a literal space. Tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs, quotes, and backslashes can therefore create additional key-value tokens when pgx parses the string. An attacker able to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication or ScaledObject can inject host or sslmode parameters, redirect the database connection to an attacker-controlled server, expose credentials, or disable intended TLS protection. This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
43
EG Risk 43/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity59% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
33rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 7, 2026

Last Modified

October 12, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 21, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_pr, github_commit, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

v2.20.0

Patch available: kedacore/keda v2.20.0

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.20.0
GitHub commit

commit 703de9dec86c (kedacore/keda)

Fix landed in kedacore/keda commit 703de9dec86c — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/commit/703de9dec86cb25b6ecfa4948880a90487344d3f
GitHub pull request

Escape PostgreSQL connection string whitespace

Fix merged in kedacore/keda PR #7787 on 2026-05-27 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/7787
Web page

PostgreSQL scaler generated connection strings do not quote all whitespace · Issue #7784 · kedacore/keda · GitHub

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/7784
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

PostgreSQL connection string parameter injection via incomplete whitespace escaping · Advisory · kedacore/keda · GitHub

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/security/advisories/GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53572(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
gogithub.com/kedacore/keda/v2 @ 2.20.0 (fixes < 2.20.0)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
github.com/kedacore/keda—
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
github.com/kedacore/keda/v2—
  • every version up to 2.20.0: fixed in 2.20.0
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 113 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 13 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  2. 2026-11-11 22:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-11 22:54 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-11 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.9
  5. 2026-11-11 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  6. 2026-11-10 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
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  15. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  16. 2026-11-01 07:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.9
  17. 2026-11-01 07:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
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  23. 2026-10-27 10:25 UTCOSV refresh
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  1. 2026-10-25 14:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
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  10. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
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  16. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-12 15:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-10-11 19:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  21. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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  33. 2026-10-01 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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  38. 2026-09-28 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
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  41. 2026-09-25 14:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  42. 2026-09-25 14:25 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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  45. 2026-09-23 06:15 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  46. 2026-09-23 06:15 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
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  50. 2026-09-18 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
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  54. 2026-09-14 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
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  57. 2026-09-13 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-53572?
CVE-2026-53572 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 7, 2026. KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to 2.20.0, pkg/scalers/postgresql_scaler.go constructs libpq-style connection strings from tenant-controlled host, port, userName, dbName, sslmode, and password values, while escapePostgreConnectionParameter() only quotes values…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-53572 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-53572 was published on July 7, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 12, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-53572 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53572 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (33rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-53572?
CVE-2026-53572 has a CVSS base score of 5.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53572?
A fix for CVE-2026-53572 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-53572 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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