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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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  "modified": "2025-04-04T14:23:32Z",
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}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-03 12:23 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28

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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-04 03:55 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

PostgreSQL redhat root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603	issue-tracking

Impacted products

1 product

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

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PYSEC-2026-451

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-06-29 11:50 - Updated: 2026-07-01 20:22

Details

Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules).

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

Impacted products

Name	purl
pgadmin4	pkg:pypi/pgadmin4

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GHSA-G73C-FW68-PWX3

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

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