High severity · published Apr 3, 2025
CVE-2025-2945
Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules)
8.8
CVSS
56.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)56.3% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
P4
Pgadmin 4 · Pgadmin
before 9.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2945
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2945
Exploit
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603
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