Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting pgadmin4 package, versions [,9.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PGADMIN4-15248396
  • published9 Feb 2026
  • disclosed5 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-1707  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pgadmin4 to version 9.12 or higher.

Overview

pgadmin4 is a PostgreSQL Tools

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in the restore operation. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to restricted operations by extracting the \restrict key in real time and racing the restore process to overwrite the restore script with a payload that re-enables meta-commands using \unrestrict <key>, resulting in command execution on the host.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1