CVE-2024-2044 Unsafe Deserialisation and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user in pgAdmin 4

What is CVE-2024-2044?

CVE-2024-2044 is a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 7 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

pgAdmin <= 8.3 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code. If the server is running on Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can load and deserialize remote pickle objects and gain code execution. If the server is running on POSIX/Linux, an authenticated attacker can upload pickle objects, deserialize them, and gain code execution.

Weakness: CWE-31

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2044?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pgadmin4 and pgAdmin4. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Pgadmin Pgadmin 4.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2044?

Upgrade pgadmin4 to 8.4 or later.

Upgrade, and only deserialise data from trusted sources or with an allow-list of types. More about Unsafe deserialization.

Is CVE-2024-2044 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2044 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w, PYSEC-2026-453, SUSE-SU-2024:1340-1.