pgAdmin 4 Path Traversal vulnerability

published 2022-03-16 4 y ago modified 2026-07-06 4 mo ago also GHSA-cr8c-972v-rmp3 , PYSEC-2026-729 , EUVD-2022-1410

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits: 0; none known

A malicious, but authorised and authenticated user can construct an HTTP request using their existing CSRF token and session cookie to manually upload files to any location that the operating system user account under which pgAdmin is running has permission to write.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 distros 2 links 1

pypi pgadmin4 6.7
pgadmin pgadmin_4 6.7

suse opensuse

pgadmin4 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4, openSUSE Leap 15.3 4.30-150300.3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1541-1

pgadmin4 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13667-1

github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4@dccd4f0 commit

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0959 updated 2026-06-26 cvss 7.6

pgadmin: Unrestricted file upload in pgAdmin

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
OSV	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	pgadmin4	<6.7	6.7

Affected products

n/a pgadmin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

github.com /pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/dccd4f0bbaafa783d9f0360c7592b128d5cc3928
web
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=2063759
web, issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0959
advisory
github.com /pgadmin-org/pgadmin4
package
pypi.org /project/pgadmin4
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-cr8c-972v-rmp3
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary