GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/12/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v.json
JSON Data
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Aliases
Published
2025-12-11T21:31:28Z
Modified
2025-12-12T16:56:15.034138Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
pgadmin4 has a Meta-Command Filter Command Execution
Details

The PLAIN restore meta-command filter introduced in pgAdmin as part of the fix for CVE-2025-12762 does not detect meta-commands when a SQL file begins with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF) or other special byte sequences. The implemented filter uses the function has_meta_commands(), which scans raw bytes using a regular expression. The regex does not treat the bytes as ignorable, so meta-commands such as \\! remain undetected. When pgAdmin invokes psql with --file, psql strips the bytes and executes the command. This can result in remote command execution during a restore operation.

Database specific 
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-12-11T19:15:52Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-77",
        "CWE-94"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-12-12T16:42:54Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / pgadmin4

Package

Name
pgadmin4
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Purl
pkg:pypi/pgadmin4

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.11

Affected versions

4.*

4.20
4.22
4.23
4.24
4.25
4.26
4.27
4.28
4.29
4.30

5.*

5.0
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7

6.*

6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
6.18
6.19
6.20
6.21

7.*

7.0
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8

8.*

8.0
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
8.10
8.11
8.12
8.13
8.14

9.*

9.0
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
9.8
9.9
9.10

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/12/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v.json"