CVE-2026-7815

pgAdmin 4: SQL injection in Maintenance tool option values leading to remote code execution

High · published May 11, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SQL injection vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Maintenance Tool.

Four user-supplied JSON fields (buffer_usage_limit, vacuum_parallel, vacuum_index_cleanup, reindex_tablespace) were concatenated directly into the rendered VACUUM/ANALYZE/REINDEX command and passed to psql --command. An authenticated user with the tools_maintenance permission could break out of the option syntax and execute arbitrary SQL on the connected PostgreSQL server. The injected SQL could in turn invoke COPY ... TO PROGRAM to escalate to operating-system command execution on the database host.

Fix introduces server-side allow-listing of all four fields and switches reindex_tablespace from manual quoting to the qtIdent filter.

This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00639 · 50.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-11T14:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAY 14:35Z
    pgAdmin 4: SQL injection in Maintenance tool option values leading to remote code execution
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