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GHSA-J2PC-4J53-Q3WW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-01-07 21:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 18:31

Details

When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-0218 (GCVE-0-2025-0218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 19:18 – Updated: 2025-11-03 17:31

Title

pgAgent scheduled batch job scripts are created in a predictable temporary directory potentially allowing a denial of service

Summary

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-07 20:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-340 - Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers

Assigner

PostgreSQL redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgagent/commit/1ec…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	pgAgent	Affected: 4 , < 4.2.3 (rpm)

Credits

The pgAdmin project thanks Wolfgang Frisch from SUSE for reporting this problem.

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