CVE-2025-13780: pgadmin4 has a Meta-Command Filter Command Execution
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The PLAIN restore meta-command filter introduced in pgAdmin as part of the fix for CVE-2025-12762 does not detect meta-commands when a SQL file begins with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF) or other special byte sequences. The implemented filter uses the function has_meta_commands(), which scans raw bytes using a regular expression. The regex does not treat the bytes as ignorable, so meta-commands such as \\! remain undetected. When pgAdmin invokes psql with –file, psql strips the bytes and executes the command. This can result in remote command execution during a restore operation.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxmw-jcgr-w44v
- github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4
- github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/1d397395f75320ca1d4ed5e9ca721c603415e836
- github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/d5a909f14cb9713d89b49481ad1929fad89f4576
- github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/9368
- github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/pull/9426
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13780
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