Bug 2469099 (CVE-2026-7818) - CVE-2026-7818 pgadmin4: unsafe deserialization in file-backed session manager leads to remote code execution
Summary: CVE-2026-7818 pgadmin4: unsafe deserialization in file-backed session manager...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-7818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2476790
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Reported: 2026-05-11 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-13 14:04 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-11 16:03:32 UTC
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) in pgAdmin 4 FileBackedSessionManager.

The session manager performed unsafe deserialization of session-file contents (using Python's standard object-serialization module) before performing any HMAC integrity check. Any file dropped into the sessions directory was deserialized unconditionally. An authenticated user with write access to the sessions directory (whether by misconfiguration or in combination with another path-traversal flaw) could plant a crafted serialized payload to achieve operating-system level remote code execution under the pgAdmin process identity.

Fix prepends a 64-byte hex SHA-256 HMAC over the session body, computed with SECRET_KEY, and verifies it via hmac.compare_digest before any deserialization. The check is raised (rather than asserted) on empty SECRET_KEY so it is not stripped under -O.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.


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