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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-7820 EUVD-2026-29088GHSA-hv9p-2pqf-r5w3PYSEC-2026-2869

pgAdmin 4: Account-lockout bypass via Flask-Security default /login view

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

Description

Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts (CWE-307) in pgAdmin 4.

pgAdmin enforces MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS only inside its custom /authenticate/login view. Flask-Security's default /login view, which is registered automatically by security.init_app() and is reachable on every server, never consulted the User.locked field: pgAdmin's User model relied on Flask-Security's UserMixin.is_locked() (which always returns 'not locked') and Flask-Login's is_active (which only checks the active column, not locked). An attacker who triggered an account lockout via /authenticate/login could therefore obtain a session by re-submitting valid credentials directly to /login, defeating the brute-force-protection control for accounts using the INTERNAL authentication source. The same bypass also means that login attempts via /login are never rate-limited, so an attacker can perform an unbounded online password-guessing attack against INTERNAL accounts regardless of MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS.

Fix overrides User.is_active and User.is_locked() so the locked column is enforced on every authentication path. LDAP, OAuth2, Kerberos, and Webserver users are not reachable by this bypass because they have no local password and are rejected by Flask-Security's LoginForm.validate before the locked check; the lockout itself is also internal-only (the /authenticate/login view filters by auth_source=INTERNAL).

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 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-hv9p-2pqf-r5w3

Advisories 2

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