{"id":"CVE-2024-2044","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-2044","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T22:12:40.043Z","title":"pgAdmin <= 8.3 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code.","description":"pgAdmin <= 8.3 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code. If the server is running on Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can load and deserialize remote pickle objects and gain code execution. If the server is running on POSIX/Linux, an authenticated attacker can upload pickle objects, deserialize them, and gain code execution.","published":"2024-03-07T21:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:23:37.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-31"],"affected":["pgadmin/pgadmin 4","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.79465,"percentile":0.99603,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 79.5%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7258","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LUYN2JXKKHFSVTASH344TBRGWDH64XQV/","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://www.shielder.com/advisories/pgadmin-path-traversal_leads_to_unsafe_deserialization_and_rce/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7258","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LUYN2JXKKHFSVTASH344TBRGWDH64XQV/","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.shielder.com/advisories/pgadmin-path-traversal_leads_to_unsafe_deserialization_and_rce/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2044","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}