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PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL that acts as a proxy between clients and databases. Discussions on WindowsForum.com cover a critical authentication-path vulnerability, CVE-2025-12819, which allows unauthenticated clients to execute arbitrary SQL via a crafted search_path parameter in the StartupMessage. This bug affects PgBouncer releases prior to 1.25.1 and was fixed in version 1.25.1, published December 3, 2025. The tag also includes content about scaling PostgreSQL with PgBouncer in Azure environments, focusing on write optimization, read replicas, and performance tuning for production traffic.
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    PgBouncer CVE-2025-12819: Upgrade to 1.25.1 to Stop Auth Time SQL Execution

    PgBouncer has a serious authentication-path vulnerability—CVE-2025-12819—that can let an unauthenticated client execute arbitrary SQL during the authentication process by supplying a crafted search_path parameter in the StartupMessage; the bug affects PgBouncer releases prior to 1.25.1 and was...
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    OpenAI Postgres Scaling on Azure: Writes, Replicas, and Read Optimization

    OpenAI’s database story is unexpectedly simple on paper but fiendishly complex in practice: a single primary PostgreSQL writer, dozens of read-only replicas, and a relentless focus on smoothing writes, offloading work, and squeezing every millisecond out of reads — all running on Azure Database...
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