GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44vCriticalCVSS 9.1

pgadmin4 has a Meta-Command Filter Command Execution

Published
December 11, 2025
Last Modified
December 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The PLAIN restore meta-command filter introduced in pgAdmin as part of the fix for CVE-2025-12762 does not detect meta-commands when a SQL file begins with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF) or other special byte sequences. The implemented filter uses the function has_meta_commands(), which scans raw bytes using a regular expression. The regex does not treat the bytes as ignorable, so meta-commands such as \\! remain undetected. When pgAdmin invokes psql with --file, psql strips the bytes and executes the command. This can result in remote command execution during a restore operation.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pgadmin4:< 9.11

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