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.

Affected Packages

PyPI pgAdmin4

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 8.4)

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-2044

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w

Published

March 7, 2024 9:30 PM

Last Modified

February 13, 2025 7:08 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

PyPI

Primary Package

pgAdmin4

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 16, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.