Bug 2239164 (CVE-2023-5002)

Summary: CVE-2023-5002 pgadmin4: remote code execution by an authenticated user
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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Fixed In Version: pgadmin4 7.7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A flaw was found in pgAdmin. This issue occurs when the pgAdmin server HTTP API validates the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as pg_dump and pg_restore. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 7.6 failed to properly control the server code executed on this API, allowing an authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the server.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-09-15 16:22:57 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 7.7 failed to properly control the server code executed on this API, which could allow an authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the server. Users can use the commands as filenames and check for validating the path using the API. This would inject the command in the path validator and execute the command on the pgAdmin server.

This issue does not affect users running pgAdmin in desktop mode.

Reference:
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/6763
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-09-21 15:47:17 UTC 
Created pgadmin4 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2240071]