# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-66838"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-07T12:20:02.376Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-07T15:12:12.308Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66838"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66838.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66838"
title: "SQL injection via the :comment option in Postgrex.stream/4"
summary: "Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in elixir-ecto postgrex allows SQL Injection via the :comment option of Postgrex.stream/4. An attacker who can influence that value can close the comment delimiter with */ and extend the streamed statement with their own clauses, which execute under the connection's role. Ecto exposes the same option through Ecto.Repo.stream/2.\n\nPostgrex appends the comment by concatenating it into the statement text sent in the Parse message, without escaping or rejecting */. The option is validated by comment_not_present!/1 at every other execution point; stream/4 never calls it. Because Parse accepts a single command, the injection is confined to the streamed statement and further statements cannot be chained.\n\nThis issue affects postgrex: from 0.19.3 before 0.22.4."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.19.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.22.4"}],"vendor":"elixir-ecto","product":"postgrex","packageName":"postgrex","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4971a2722fa72f8e1b54a2c403cad4c43916e36d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"e1ecba618ddea4cee2556bd6ad9b6285e05f9d3c","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"4011be852c99dc61ddb98cb01aa41e8775a0e3dd","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"elixir-ecto","product":"postgrex","packageName":"elixir-ecto/postgrex","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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