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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-7816 EUVD-2026-29084GHSA-j74f-g7vx-fh4xPYSEC-2026-2870

pgAdmin 4: OS command injection in Import/Export query export via psql metacommand breakout

Published May 11, 2026 · Updated May 26, 2026 · Assigned by PostgreSQL

Description

OS command injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Import/Export query export.

User-supplied input was interpolated directly into a psql \copy metacommand template without sanitization. An authenticated user could inject ") TO PROGRAM 'cmd'" to break out of the \copy (...) context and achieve arbitrary command execution on the pgAdmin server, or ") TO '/path'" for arbitrary file write. Additional fields (format, on_error, log_verbosity) were also raw-interpolated and exploitable.

Fix adds a parens-balance parser modeled on psql's strtokx tokenizer, allow-lists format/on_error/log_verbosity, rejects null bytes in the query, and tightens type and gating checks.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 9.4 – < 9.15 9.15

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

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pgadmin4 < 9.15 9.15 GHSA-j74f-g7vx-fh4x

Advisories 2

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