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pgAdmin 4 vulnerable to Unsafe Deserialization and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 7, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 2, 2024

Package

pip pgAdmin4 (pip)

Affected versions

< 8.4

Patched versions

8.4

Description

pgAdmin prior to version 8.4 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code. If the server is running on Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can load and deserialize remote pickle objects and gain code execution. If the server is running on POSIX/Linux, an authenticated attacker can upload pickle objects, deserialize them and gain code execution.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 7, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 7, 2024
Reviewed Mar 7, 2024
Last updated Aug 2, 2024

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.163%
(54th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2024-2044

GHSA ID

GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w

Source code

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