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critical 9.9

CVE-2024-2044 in the critical feed json

Unsafe Deserialisation and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user in pgAdmin 4

published 2024-03-07 2 y ago modified 2026-07-01 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-1004 , GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w , PYSEC-2026-453

cvss
9.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.5%
EPSS 79.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

pgAdmin <= 8.3 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code. If the server is running on Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can load and deserialize remote pickle objects and gain code execution. If the server is running on POSIX/Linux, an authenticated attacker can upload pickle objects, deserialize them, and gain code execution.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pgadmin4 8.4
  • pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 8.4
  • postgresql pgadmin_4 8.4
  • pgadmin4 SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS +9 more 4.30-150300.3.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1340-1

  • pgadmin4 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13843-1

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-2024-2044 updated cvss 5.9

pgAdmin4: Unsafe Deserialization and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user

  • 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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/pgadmin_session_deserialization)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

79.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pgadmin4
<8.4
8.4

Affected products

  • pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4
  • postgresql pgadmin_4
  • fedoraproject fedora

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-31 Path Traversal: 'dir\..\..\filename'
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.