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CVE-2026-7819: pgAdmin 4 · CWE-61

Affects pgAdmin 4Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.1 High : upgrade to 9.15 soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
8.1High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 25% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 9.15
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 May 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade pgadmin-org/pgadmin4 and pgAdmin 4 to 9.15.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
pgadmin.orgpgAdmin 4Affected
  • <9.15
Fixed in–
GitHubpgadmin-org/pgadmin4pkg:github/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4Other threatsAffected
  • <9.15
Fixed in
  • 9.15
GitHubpgAdmin 4pkg:github/pgAdmin 4Other threatsAffected
  • <9.15
Fixed in
  • 9.15

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AI-suggested

The vulnerability is fixed in pgAdmin 4 version 9.15 by switching to os.path.realpath for access checks and using O_NOFOLLOW when opening files to prevent symlink following. File permissions are also hardened.

Description

Symbolic-link path traversal (CWE-61, CWE-22) in pgAdmin 4 File Manager.check_access_permission used os.path.abspath, which resolves '..' but does not resolve symbolic links, while the subsequent kernel write follows symlinks. An authenticated user could plant a symbolic link inside their own storage directory pointing outside it and induce pgAdmin to write to any path reachable by the pgAdmin process. Fix switches the access check to os.path.realpath for both source and destination, and adds an _open_upload_target helper that opens the target with O_NOFOLLOW (mode 0o600) to close the leaf-component TOCTOU between the access check and the open. File mode is hardened from 0o644 to 0o600. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

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