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pgAdmin < 9.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 234350

Synopsis

The pgAdmin instance installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of pgAdmin installed on the remote host is prior to 9.2. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

 - Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules). The vulnerability is associated with the 2 POST endpoints; /sqleditor/query_tool/download, where the query_commited parameter and /cloud/deploy endpoint, where the high_availability parameter is unsafely passed to the Python eval() function, allowing arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2025-2945)

 - pgAdmin <= 9.1 is affected by a security vulnerability with Cross-Site Scripting(XSS). If attackers execute any arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in a user's browser through query result rendering, then HTML/JavaScript runs on the browser. (CVE-2025-2946)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade pgAdmin to a version later than 9.2.

See Also

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603

https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8602

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 234350

File Name: pgadmin_9_2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Databases

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 4/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2945

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:postgresql:pgadmin_4

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2945, CVE-2025-2946

IAVB: 2025-B-0049