critical 9.9

CVE-2025-2945 in the critical feed json

pgAdmin 4: Remote Code Execution in Query Tool and Cloud Deployment

published 2025-04-03 19 mo ago modified 2026-07-01 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-9605 , GHSA-g73c-fw68-pwx3 , PYSEC-2026-451

cvss: 9.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 56.3%; EPSS 56.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits: 1; Metasploit

Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules).

The vulnerability is associated with the 2 POST endpoints; /sqleditor/query_tool/download, where the query_commited parameter and /cloud/deploy endpoint, where the high_availability parameter is unsafely passed to the Python eval() function, allowing arbitrary code execution.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.2.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 distros 1 links 1

pypi pgadmin4 9.2
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 9.2

pgadmin4 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14983-1

github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4@75be0bc 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-2025-2945 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 9.9

pgadmin: pgAdmin 4: Remote Code Execution in Query Tool and Cloud Deployment

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

2025-04-03 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/pgadmin_query_tool_authenticated)
2025-04-03 Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 19 mo ago (2025-04-04)

Exploit prediction

56.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit exploit/multi/http/pgadmin_query_tool_authenticated pgAdmin Query Tool authenticated RCE (CVE-2025-2945) metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2025-04-03
github.com https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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	<9.2	9.2

Affected products

pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

github.com /pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/75be0bc22d3d8d7620711835db817bd7c021007c
web
github.com /pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603
issue-tracking, web, exploit
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2945
advisory
github.com /pgadmin-org/pgadmin4
package
pypi.org /project/pgadmin4
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-g73c-fw68-pwx3
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.

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

Summary