Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2024-3116 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA: PostgreSQLCVSS-B:7.4 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98 CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7326 CVEExploitIssue Tracking
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GIF5T34JTTYRGIN5YPT366BDFG6452A2/ CVEMailing List
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pgadmin-cve-2024-3116 CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/aelmokhtar/689a8be7e3bd535ec01992d8ec7b2b98 PostgreSQLExploitThird Party Advisory

see all 7 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-noinfoInsufficient Information to Classify Weakness[email protected]
CWE-77Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')CISA-ADP

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pgadmin pgadmin 4
<= 8.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:pgadmin:pgadmin_4:*:*:*:*:*:postgresql:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
39

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-3116
NVD Published Date:
Apr 4, 2024
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
PostgreSQL
CVE-2024-3116 Details - Not Deferred