CVE-2020-17446: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Magic Asyncpg: before 0.21.0 (fixed in 0.21.0)

Published 2020-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.