CVE-2024-3116
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability through the validate binary path API in pgAdmin 4
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- PostgreSQL
Description
pgAdmin <= 8.4 is affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability through the validate binary path API. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server hosting PGAdmin, posing a severe risk to the database management system's integrity and the security of the underlying data.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By PostgreSQL
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQLCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 65.8% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 8.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpgadmin4GHSA-27jx-ffw8-xrqv (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98 (opens in a new tab)mitigationx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-cve-2024-3116 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-27jx-ffw8-xrqv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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