CVE-2024-3116
pgAdmin <= 8.4 is affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability through the validate binary path API.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 65.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
pgAdmin <= 8.4 is affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability through the validate binary path API. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server hosting PGAdmin, posing a severe risk to the database management system's integrity and the security of the underlying data.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 65.81% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-77
- Affected
- pgadmin/pgadmin 4 · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007
EPSS 65.8% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/Mailing List
- https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/Mailing List
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-cve-2024-3116Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.