pgAdmin 4: A user's other sessions survive a change of their password (pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4)

CVE-2026-116251
LOW 2.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.11 % Β· percentile 1 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
PostgreSQL
NVD status
Received

Description

pgAdmin 4 did not invalidate a user's existing sessions when their password changed, either through the user's own change password dialog or through an administrator resetting it in User Management. A session established before the change, for example on another device or by someone who had obtained the old password or a session cookie, therefore stayed logged in after the change, which is the step a user or administrator takes precisely to cut such access off. It remained usable until it expired. The fix rotates the user's session identifier (fs_uniquifier) whenever the password is changed, so every other session of that user is logged out. The session that made the change is logged in again and keeps its database connections. Saved server passwords, including those for shared servers, are re-encrypted under the new key; any that cannot be decrypted are cleared and the user is told. If re-encryption fails, the sessions are still revoked and the saved passwords are cleared rather than the change failing. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.19.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-613 β€” DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NPostgreSQL
CVSS 4.0LOW 2.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NPostgreSQL
CVSS 4.0LOW 2.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD Β· f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD Β· f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007 (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
pgadmin.org Β· pgAdmin 4affected 0 < 9.19

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD