CVE-2025-12763 (GCVE-0-2025-12763)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-13 13:00
Modified
2025-12-01 19:15
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
pgAdmin 4 versions up to 9.9 are affected by a command injection vulnerability on Windows systems. This issue is caused by the use of shell=True during backup and restore operations, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary system commands by providing specially crafted file path input.
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