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SCA: security update for pgadmin4 (GHSA-g73c-fw68-pwx3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424761

Description

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

 - 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. This issue affects pgAdmin 4:
 before 9.2. (CVE-2025-2945)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g73c-fw68-pwx3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424761

Version: Revision 1.16

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2945

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2025

Exploitable With

Metasploit (pgAdmin Query Tool authenticated RCE (CVE-2025-2945))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2945

cwe: CWE-94