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ghsa-rm79-x4g6-hvg5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-11-13 15:30

Modified

2025-11-13 23:09

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 has command injection vulnerability on Windows systems

Details

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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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.

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/9323

issue-tracking

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	pgadmin.org	pgAdmin 4	Version: 0 <

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