High severity · published Apr 3, 2025
CVE-2025-2945
pgAdmin 4: Remote Code Execution in Query Tool and Cloud Deployment
8.8
CVSS
56.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)56.3% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
P4
pgAdmin 4 · pgadmin.org
before 9.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2945
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2945
Exploit
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8603
More from pgAdmin 4
9.9
CVE-2026-17566
pgAdmin 4: RCE via backslash-escape mismatch in Import/Export Data query guard (incomplete defense, sibling gap to CVE-2025-13780)
9.9
CVE-2026-7813
pgAdmin 4: Cross-user data access and shared-server privilege escalation in server mode
9.8
CVE-2026-86863
pgAdmin 4: Authentication bypass via a client-controlled identity header in Webserver authentication mode
9.8
CVE-2025-12762
Remote Code Execution vulnerability when restoring PLAIN-format SQL dumps in server mode (pgAdmin 4)
9.8
CVE-2024-3116
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability through the validate binary path API in pgAdmin 4