github - ghsa-j2pc-4j53-q3ww

ghsa-j2pc-4j53-q3ww

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-01-07 21:30

Modified

2025-11-03 18:31

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.

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  "modified": "2025-11-03T18:31:15Z",
  "published": "2025-01-07T21:30:55Z",
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00018.html"
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CVE-2025-0218 (GCVE-0-2025-0218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-01-07 19:18

Modified

2025-11-03 17:31

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-340 - Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers

Summary

When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgagent/commit/1ecd193a2be3a3dc9e98f369495e1a792e6d508c

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	pgAgent	Version: 4 < 4.2.3

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