GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w

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

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2024-2044

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	pgAdmin4	< 8.4	8.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2044 advisory
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7258 web
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/4e49d752fba72953acceeb7f4aa2e6e32d25853d web
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4 package
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LUYN2JXKKHFSVTASH344TBRGWDH64XQV web
https://www.shielder.com/advisories/pgadmin-path-traversal_leads_to_unsafe_deserialization_and_rce web