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GHSA-G73C-FW68-PWX3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-04-03 15:31 – Updated: 2025-04-04 14:23

Summary

pgAdmin 4 Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-03 12:23 – Updated: 2025-04-04 03:55

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

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

PostgreSQL

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	pgadmin.org	pgAdmin 4	Affected: 0 , < 9.2 (custom)

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GHSA-G73C-FW68-PWX3

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

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