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SCA: security update for pgadmin4 (GHSA-3v6v-2x6p-32mc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409695

Description

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

 - The pgAdmin server includes an HTTP API that is intended to be used to validate the path a user selects to
 external PostgreSQL utilities such as pg_dump and pg_restore. The utility is executed by the server to
 determine what PostgreSQL version it is from. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 6.17 failed to properly secure
 this API, which could allow an unauthenticated user to call it with a path of their choosing, such as a
 UNC path to a server they control on a Windows machine. This would cause an appropriately named executable
 in the target path to be executed by the pgAdmin server. (CVE-2022-4223)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3v6v-2x6p-32mc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409695

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4223

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4223