CVE-2025-2945: pgAdmin 4: Remote Code Execution in Query Tool and Cloud Deployment
Description
Remote Code Execution security vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 (Query Tool and Cloud Deployment modules).
The vulnerability is associated with the 2 POST endpoints; /sqleditor/query_tool/download, where the query_commited parameter and /cloud/deploy endpoint, where the high_availability parameter is unsafely passed to the Python eval() function, allowing arbitrary code execution.
This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.2.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-2945
CVSS Base Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS Base Score: 9.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
Vendor: pgadmin.org
Product: pgAdmin 4
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 25.71% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 95.88% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2945https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603