CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-7818

7.3 HIGH Published 2026-05-11 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-11
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007
CVSS 4.0 (f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007)
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 (f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007)
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) in pgAdmin 4 FileBackedSessionManager. The session manager performed unsafe deserialization of session-file contents (using Python's standard object-serialization module) before performing any HMAC integrity check. Any file dropped into the sessions directory was deserialized unconditionally. An authenticated user with write access to the sessions directory (whether by misconfiguration or in combination with another path-traversal flaw) could plant a crafted serialized payload to achieve operating-system level remote code execution under the pgAdmin process identity. Fix prepends a 64-byte hex SHA-256 HMAC over the session body, computed with SECRET_KEY, and verifies it via hmac.compare_digest before any deserialization. The check is raised (rather than asserted) on empty SECRET_KEY so it is not stripped under -O. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

Affected configurations

• pgadmin pgadmin 4 (< 9.15)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References