CVE-2026-3172

high

Description

Buffer overflow in parallel HNSW index build in pgvector 0.6.0 through 0.8.1 allows a database user to leak sensitive data from other relations or crash the database server.

References

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/959

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-25

Updated: 2026-02-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042