CVE-2026-7815

HIGH

pgAdmin 4: SQL injection in Maintenance tool option values leading to remote code execution

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Maintenance Tool. Four user-supplied JSON fields (buffer_usage_limit, vacuum_parallel, vacuum_index_cleanup, reindex_tablespace) were concatenated directly into the rendered VACUUM/ANALYZE/REINDEX command and passed to psql --command. An authenticated user with the tools_maintenance permission could break out of the option syntax and execute arbitrary SQL on the connected PostgreSQL server. The injected SQL could in turn invoke COPY ... TO PROGRAM to escalate to operating-system command execution on the database host. Fix introduces server-side allow-listing of all four fields and switches reindex_tablespace from manual quoting to the qtIdent filter. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-89
Status published
Products (2)
pgadmin.org/pgAdmin 4 7.6 - 9.15
pypi/pgadmin4 0 - 9.15PyPI
Published May 11, 2026
Tracked Since May 11, 2026