CVE-2025-2945 (GCVE-0-2025-2945)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-03 12:23 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
pgAdmin 4: Remote Code Execution in Query Tool and Cloud Deployment
Summary
Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules). The vulnerability is associated with the 2 POST endpoints; /sqleditor/query_tool/download, where the query_commited parameter and /cloud/deploy endpoint, where the high_availability parameter is unsafely passed to the Python eval() function, allowing arbitrary code execution. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.2.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Affected: 0 , < 9.2 (custom)
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