CVE-2025-0218 (GCVE-0-2025-0218)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-07 19:18
Modified
2025-11-03 17:31
CWE
  • CWE-340 - Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers
Summary
When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a pgAgent Version: 4   < 4.2.3
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