Description
pgAdmin 4 versions up to 9.9 are affected by a command injection vulnerability on Windows systems. This issue is caused by the use of shell=True during backup and restore operations, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary system commands by providing specially crafted file path input.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78CWE-78
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- PGADMIN
- Published
- 11/13/2025
- Last Modified
- 12/1/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
pgadmin : pgadmin_4
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