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CVE-2026-116242: pgAdmin 4: SSH tunnels use the pgAdmin service account's own SSH identity

HighCVSS 7.1 · v4.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • No fixed version is recorded, but the references include a patch (commit or PR) link.

Low priority for now. See the fix and affected versions sections below.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

pgAdmin 4 opens SSH tunnels with the sshtunnel library but gave it neither host_pkey_directories nor ssh_config_file, so it always loaded the unencrypted private keys in ~/.ssh of the operating-system account running pgAdmin, read that account's ~/.ssh/config (IdentityFile, User, HostName, ProxyCommand) for the tunnel host, and could use its ssh-agent. In server mode any user could therefore configure a tunnel to a host that accepts the service account's key, with no credentials of their own or with an identity file that did not exist in their storage, and reach it as that account. The fix makes tunnels in server mode use only the identity file or password the user configured: the service account's keys, configuration and agent are no longer used, and an identity file that cannot be found in the user's storage is reported instead of falling back to ~/.ssh. Desktop mode is unchanged. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.19.

Published
Oct 30, 2026
Updated
Nov 6, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 14th percentile

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Action score

28

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · PostgreSQL
8.2
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

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VendorProduct
pgadminpgadmin 4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (PostgreSQL). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4

    • before 9.19affected

Affected versions

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  • pgadmin pgadmin 4before 9.19

Same product

pgadmin: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2024-2044Unsafe Deserialisation and Remote Code Execution by an Authenticated user in pgAdmin 4
    63This week
  • CVE-2024-3116Remote Code Execution Vulnerability through the validate binary path API in pgAdmin 4
    60This week
  • CVE-2022-4223The pgAdmin server includes an HTTP API that is intended to be used to validate the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities…
    59Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-116240Oct 30, 2026 · pgAdmin 4: File Manager and storage-path tools act on a different path from the one checked
    28Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-116241Oct 30, 2026 · pgAdmin 4: Import/Export Data query export runs a command through a backslash in a double-quoted identifier
    37Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-116243Oct 30, 2026 · pgAdmin 4: Utility binary path can point at a shared storage directory
    30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-1734991 days apartpgAdmin 4: Adhoc server clone leaks another user's stored database credentials and ownership to a non-owner
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1162440 days apartpgAdmin 4: libpq uses the pgAdmin service account's Kerberos credentials
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1162450 days apartpgAdmin 4: Connection services are not restricted in server mode
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1162470 days apartpgAdmin 4: libpq uses the pgAdmin service account's own password file and client certificate
    28Monitor

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-522 · Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. CVSS8.2 → 7.1
  3. Exploit maturity— → none

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References

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