pgAdmin <= 8.3 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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - pgAdmin <= 8.3 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.
    (CVE-2024-2044)

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-15df3b6d95 advisory.

    Update to pgadmin4-8.4.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1340-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-2044: Fixed unsafe deserialization and Remote Code Execution by an authenticated user     (bsc#1221172)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
418775	SCA: security update for pgAdmin4 (GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
418775	SCA: security update for pgAdmin4 (GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
194512	Fedora 40 : pgadmin4 / python-jsonformatter (2024-15df3b6d95)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
193547	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pgadmin4 (SUSE-SU-2024:1340-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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