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SCA: security update for pgAdmin4 (GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418775

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 418775

Version: Revision 1.13

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: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.07

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-2024-2044

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 9.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Threat Score: 8.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (pgAdmin Session Deserialization RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2044