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CVE-2026-116242

9.6, critical

Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
9.6, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
0.2% higher than 14.1% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
30 Oct 20266 days ago

Description

pgAdmin 4 opens SSH tunnels with the sshtunnel library but gave it neither host_pkey_directories nor ssh_config_file, so it always loaded the unencrypted private keys in ~/.ssh of the operating-system account running pgAdmin, read that account's ~/.ssh/config (IdentityFile, User, HostName, ProxyCommand) for the tunnel host, and could use its ssh-agent. In server mode any user could therefore configure a tunnel to a host that accepts the service account's key, with no credentials of their own or with an identity file that did not exist in their storage, and reach it as that account. The fix makes tunnels in server mode use only the identity file or password the user configured: the service account's keys, configuration and agent are no longer used, and an identity file that cannot be found in the user's storage is reported instead of falling back to ~/.ssh. Desktop mode is unchanged. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.19.

Details

Vendor
Pgadmin.org
Product
pgAdmin 4
Weakness
CWE-522 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
4 Nov 2026
Assigner
f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

References 2

Patches and fixes 1

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Pgadmin.org CVEs

Every Pgadmin.org CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2026-116244 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability EPSS 0.3% 9.6, critical
  • CVE-2026-116245 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability EPSS 0.2% 9.6, critical
  • CVE-2026-116247 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Insufficiently Protected Credentials Vulnerability EPSS 0.1% 9.6, critical
  • CVE-2026-116239 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Improper Authentication Vulnerability EPSS 0.4% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-116241 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 OS Command Injection Vulnerability EPSS 0.3% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-116243 Pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Untrusted Search Path Vulnerability EPSS 0.3% 8.8, high
  • CVE-2026-116246 To pass a server's password to psql and to the utilities pgAdmin 4 runs as background processes, the server manager wrote it into… EPSS 0.2% 7.6, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 5 Nov 2026, not the live upstream state.