Bug 2151434 (CVE-2022-4223)

Summary:	CVE-2022-4223 pgadmin4: Unauthenticated remote code execution while validating the binary path
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	2151435
Bug Blocks:	2151436

Description Avinash Hanwate 2022-12-07 05:11:11 UTC

The pgAdmin server includes an HTTP API that is intended to be used to validate the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as
pg_dump and pg_restore. The utility is executed by the server to determine what PostgreSQL version it is from.

Versions of pgAdmin prior to 6.17 failed to properly secure this API, which could allow an unauthenticated user to call it with a path of their choosing, such as a UNC path to a server they control on a Windows machine. This would cause an appropriately named executable in the target path to be executed by the pgAdmin server.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2022-12-07 05:14:45 UTC

Created pgadmin4 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2151435]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-09 18:13:50 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.