CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedKEDA versions prior to 2.20.0 are vulnerable due to improper handling of PostgreSQL connection strings, allowing attackers to inject malicious parameters through user-controlled inputs. This could lead to redirection of database connections to unauthorized servers, exposure of sensitive credentials, or disabling of TLS protections. Organizations using affected KEDA versions should prioritize upgrading to version 2.20.0 to mitigate these risks.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
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.