CVE-2023-5002 Pgadmin4: remote code execution by an authenticated user

What is CVE-2023-5002?

CVE-2023-5002 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 22 Sep 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5002?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pgadmin4. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Pgadmin Pgadmin 4.

How do I fix CVE-2023-5002?

Upgrade pgadmin4 to 7.7 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2023-5002 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5002 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ghp8-52vx-77j4, PYSEC-2026-1774, openSUSE-SU-2024:13379-1.