CVE-2024-2044 — Vulnerability in pgadmin4 — CVE Details

CRITICAL

pgAdmin 4 vulnerable to Unsafe Deserialization and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user

Published June 29, 2026Updated July 1, 2026Source: osv

Summary

pgAdmin prior to version 8.4 is affected by a path-traversal vulnerability while deserializing users’ sessions in the session handling code. If the server is running on Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can load and deserialize remote pickle objects and gain code execution. If the server is running on POSIX/Linux, an authenticated attacker can upload pickle objects, deserialize them and gain code execution.

Advisory Timeline

First published June 29, 2026 (105 days ago).
Last revised July 1, 2026 — 2 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

pip

Update pgadmin4 to 8.4 or later

pip install "pgadmin4>=8.4"

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: pypi (1).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
pgadmin4	pypi	4.20, 4.22, 4.23, 4.24 (+47 more)	8.4

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 9.9 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-2044?: pgAdmin 4 vulnerable to Unsafe Deserialization and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of CRITICAL (CVSS score: 9.9/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2024-2044?: CVE-2024-2044 affects pgadmin4. Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2024-2044 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score

9.9

Exploitation is straightforward and causes maximum impact. Patch immediately.

Also Known As

PYSEC-2026-453

GHSA-rj98-crf4-g69w

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