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GHSA-7w6r-748w-mh52 CVE-2023-1907 PYSEC-2026-1770

pgAdmin has Incorrect Default Permissions

High PyPI
Severity
8.0 / 10
High · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.45%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 38.68% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
CWE-488 Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session
Fix
7.0
Upgrade pgadmin4 to this version or later

Description

A vulnerability was found in pgadmin. Users logging into pgAdmin running in server mode using LDAP authentication may be attached to another user's session if multiple connection attempts occur simultaneously.

Affected versions

PyPI

PackageVulnerableFixed in
pgadmin4
< 7.0
7.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

pgadmin4 PyPI → 7.0

pip
pip install --upgrade "pgadmin4>=7.0"
poetry
poetry add "pgadmin4>=7.0"
uv
uv add "pgadmin4>=7.0"

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 8.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design, Operation: The architecture needs to access and modification attributes for files to only those users who actually require those actions.
  • Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

CWE-488: Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session

The product does not sufficiently enforce boundaries between the states of different sessions, causing data to be provided to, or used by, the wrong session.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Protect the application's sessions from information leakage. Make sure that a session's data is not used or visible by other sessions.
  • Testing: Use a static analysis tool to scan the code for information leakage vulnerabilities (e.g. Singleton Member Field).
  • Architecture and Design: In a multithreading environment, storing user data in Servlet member fields introduces a data access race condition. Do not use member fields to store information in the Servlet.

References

Timeline

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  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-hv9p-2pqf-r5w3
pgAdmin 4: Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts
Medium Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-hr4r-fwpv-c95j
pgAdmin 4 File Manager has symbolic-link path traversal
High Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-4rhg-h8f2-v4jm
pgAdmin 4 has deserialization of untrusted data in its FileBackedSessionManager
High Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-p58c-q354-6c4f
pgAdmin 4 contains local file inclusion (LFI) and server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities
Medium Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-j74f-g7vx-fh4x
pgAdmin 4: OS command injection vulnerability in Import/Export query export
High Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-hp84-p2gq-6fvr
SQL injection vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Maintenance Tool
High Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-6p2c-69cv-3fxq
pgAdmin 4: Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Browser Tree and Explain Visualizer modules
Medium Also affects pgadmin4
GHSA-h2x2-q2mc-24gw
pgAdmin 4 server mode has an authorization vulnerability affecting Server Groups, Servers, Shared Servers, Background Processes, and Debugger modules
Critical Also affects pgadmin4
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