pgAdmin 4: Adhoc server clone leaks another user's stored database credentials and ownership to a non-owner (pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4)

CVE-2026-17349
CRITICAL 9.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % Β· percentile 34 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
PostgreSQL
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

/misc/workspace/adhoc_connect_server, part of the Workspaces feature introduced in pgAdmin 4 9.0, when passed the id of an existing server, clones that server via Server.clone(), which copies every column from the source row, including user_id, shared, shared_username, and the stored credential fields password, save_password, and tunnel_password. When a non-owner triggered an adhoc connect against another user's (in practice, typically an administrator's) shared server, the clone inherited that user's ownership, shared flag, and stored database credentials verbatim. pgAdmin persisted this cross-tenant, credential-bearing server row before the connection was even attempted, so it survived even when the connection subsequently failed. The non-owner could then open the newly-owned clone and pgAdmin would connect using the source user's stored database password on the non-owner's behalf, granting the non-owner use of database credentials -- and whatever database privileges they confer -- that were never their own. Fix forces the cloned adhoc record's ownership fields (user_id, shared, shared_username) and stored credential fields (password, save_password, tunnel_password) to belong to the calling user and be cleared/private before committing, regardless of the source server's ownership, sharing state, or stored credentials. A regression test asserts that an adhoc connect triggered by a non-owner against another user's shared server persists a row owned by the caller, not shared, and without the source's stored credentials. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: from 9.0 before 9.17.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-639 β€” Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
  • CWE-522 β€” Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NPostgreSQL
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:NPostgreSQL
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/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 3.1CRITICAL 9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD Β· f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007 (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
pgadmin.org Β· pgAdmin 4affected 9.0 < 9.17

Sources

SourceLicence
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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