FKIE_CVE-2025-12763

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-11-13 13:15 - Updated: 2026-10-07 21:10
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
pgAdmin 4 versions up to 9.9 are affected by a command injection vulnerability on Windows systems. This issue is caused by the use of shell=True during backup and restore operations, enabling attackers to execute arbitrary system commands by providing specially crafted file path input.
References
f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/9323Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pgadmin pgadmin_4 *
microsoft windows -
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