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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-12049 EUVD-2026-37969GHSA-7r93-vp6c-cw5m

pgAdmin 4: Open redirect in multi-factor authentication flow via unvalidated 'next' parameter

Published Jun 18, 2026 · Updated Jun 22, 2026 · Assigned by PostgreSQL

Description

Open redirect in pgAdmin 4's multi-factor authentication flow. The MFA validate and register endpoints honoured the user-supplied 'next' query/form parameter without confirming the target pointed back inside pgAdmin, so an authenticated victim who clicked /mfa/validate?next=<external> -- a link typically delivered by phishing -- would be sent to an attacker-controlled host directly out of the trusted auth flow.

The defect is a trusted-domain redirect, not a privilege bypass: the attacker gains no read/write access to pgAdmin or the victim's database, but the redirect launders the attacker's destination through pgAdmin's URL, which raises the success rate of credential-phishing follow-on against the victim.

Fix introduces a same-origin _is_safe_redirect_url helper and gates every MFA redirect that consumes user-supplied 'next' values through it. The helper allows only relative paths and absolute URLs whose scheme is http(s) and whose host matches the current request host; it rejects external hosts in absolute and protocol-relative form, non-http schemes (javascript:, data:, mailto:), userinfo tricks (http://localhost@attacker/), and backslash variants that some browsers normalize to forward slashes. Unsafe targets fall back to the internal browser index. A dedicated regression test exercises each accept/reject category and the original reporter PoC.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: from 6.0 before 9.16.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 6.0 – < 9.16 9.16

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed pgadmin4 9.17-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11508-1

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