CVE-2025-0218 Race condition in pgAgent
A local attacker can prevent pgAgent from executing scheduled jobs by pre-creating predictable temporary directories, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-0218?
CVE-2025-0218 is a medium-severity vulnerability in pgAgent, published on 7 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0218?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pgadmin Pgagent.
How do I fix CVE-2025-0218?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2025-0218 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0218 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0218, DLA-4338-1, GHSA-j2pc-4j53-q3ww, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-0218.