The pgAdmin server includes an HTTP API that is intended to be used to validate the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as pg_dump and pg_restore. The utility is executed by the server to determine what PostgreSQL version it is from. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 6.17 failed to properly secure this API, which could allow an unauthenticated user to call it with a path of their choosing, such as a UNC path to a server they control on a Windows machine. This would cause an appropriately named executable in the target path to be executed by the pgAdmin server.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-12-13T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.614Z

Reserved: 2022-11-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-4223

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-13T16:15:26.277

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:57:14.413

Link: CVE-2022-4223

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-12-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-4223 - Bugzilla