HIGH7.4

PYSEC-2026-1767

pgAdmin Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1767 — pgadmin4: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'pgadmin4>=8.5'

Details

pgAdmin <= 8.4 is affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability through the validate binary path API. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server hosting PGAdmin, posing a severe risk to the database management system's integrity and the security of the underlying data.

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Affected packages

PyPI/pgadmin4

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 8.5

Fixpip install --upgrade 'pgadmin4>=8.5'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3116[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326[WEB]
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/fbbbfe22dd468bcfef1e1f833ec32289a6e56a8b[WEB]
https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98[WEB]
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4[PACKAGE]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2[WEB]
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-cve-2024-3116[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/pgadmin4[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27jx-ffw8-xrqv[ADVISORY]