{"id":"CVE-2024-3116","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-3116","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T22:05:05.091Z","title":"pgAdmin <= 8.4 is affected by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability through the validate binary path API.","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.","published":"2024-04-04T15:15:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:43:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-77"],"affected":["pgadmin/pgadmin 4","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.65815,"percentile":0.99269,"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 65.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-cve-2024-3116","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3116","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."}