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    "cna": {
      "affected": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "modules": [
            "File Manager",
            "Import/Export Servers",
            "Backup",
            "Restore",
            "Import/Export Data"
          ],
          "product": "pgAdmin 4",
          "programFiles": [
            "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/blob/master/web/pgadmin/misc/file_manager/__init__.py",
            "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/blob/master/web/pgadmin/utils/__init__.py",
            "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/blob/master/web/pgadmin/tools/import_export_servers/__init__.py"
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4",
          "vendor": "pgadmin.org",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "9.19",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "0",
              "versionType": "custom"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "credits": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "finder",
          "value": "MUTED CYBERSECURITY S.L. \u003ccybersec@mut3dcybersecurity.com\u003e"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "remediation developer",
          "value": "Dave Page \u003cdpage@pgadmin.org\u003e"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "remediation developer",
          "value": "Hitesh Jambhale \u003chitesh.jambhale@enterprisedb.com\u003e"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "remediation reviewer",
          "value": "Hitesh Jambhale \u003chitesh.jambhale@enterprisedb.com\u003e"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "remediation reviewer",
          "value": "Ashesh Vashi \u003cashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com\u003e"
        }
      ],
      "datePublic": "2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In server mode pgAdmin 4 validates a path a user gives for a file in their storage directory with check_access_permission() and then opened it by name. Several places opened it with a plain open() or handed the path to a utility that opened it later: the servers.json export and import and the import file listing, and the files given to pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore and psql by Backup, Restore and Import/Export Data. A symbolic link swapped in at the file or at any parent directory between the check and the open redirected the operation outside the storage directory, so a file could be written, overwritten or read, or loaded into a table, as the operating-system account running pgAdmin. A hard link to an outside file, which O_NOFOLLOW does not detect, and a FIFO, which could hang a request, had the same effect. CVE-2026-86861 fixed this for the File Manager\u0027s save_file; these were the remaining paths.\n\nExploitation requires creating such a link or FIFO inside the user\u0027s storage directory. pgAdmin offers no way to do so, and the per-user storage directories belong to the pgAdmin account, so this requires write access to the storage backend as a different operating-system user, for example a shared or network-mounted storage directory, and winning the race.\n\nThe fix opens each file by walking down from the storage directory one component at a time with O_NOFOLLOW, accepting only a regular file with one link, and passes the utilities the open descriptor (/dev/fd/N) on Linux. Error messages no longer include the server path.\n\nThis issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.19."
        }
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "cvssV3_1": {
            "attackComplexity": "HIGH",
            "attackVector": "LOCAL",
            "availabilityImpact": "LOW",
            "baseScore": 6.5,
            "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
            "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
            "integrityImpact": "HIGH",
            "privilegesRequired": "LOW",
            "scope": "UNCHANGED",
            "userInteraction": "NONE",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L",
            "version": "3.1"
          },
          "format": "CVSS",
          "scenarios": [
            {
              "lang": "en",
              "value": "Threat model: an operating-system user other than the pgAdmin service account who can write into a storage directory pgAdmin uses (a shared or network-mounted storage backend), and who also has, or works with, a pgAdmin account using it. An attacker with access to the host as the service account gains nothing from this flaw, so the Attack Vector is Local. Attack Complexity is High: the link must be planted and a race between the check and the open won. Confidentiality and Integrity are High because a file readable or writable by the pgAdmin account can be read (including loaded into a table) or overwritten; Availability is Low for a clobbered file or a hung request. Scope is Unchanged: the operations run with the authority pgAdmin already holds."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "cvssV4_0": {
            "baseScore": 7.3,
            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
            "version": "4.0"
          },
          "format": "CVSS",
          "scenarios": [
            {
              "lang": "en",
              "value": "Same reasoning as the CVSS 3.1 entry. AT:P for the race and for the write access to the storage backend obtained outside pgAdmin. VC:H/VI:H/VA:L as above; no subsequent-system impact."
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "problemTypes": [
        {
          "descriptions": [
            {
              "cweId": "CWE-367",
              "description": "CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "CWE"
            },
            {
              "cweId": "CWE-59",
              "description": "CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (\u0027Link Following\u0027)",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "CWE"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "providerMetadata": {
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-30T19:55:18.713Z",
        "orgId": "f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007",
        "shortName": "PostgreSQL"
      },
      "references": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "issue-tracking"
          ],
          "url": "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/10647"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "patch"
          ],
          "url": "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/99f5606e2ebc7c94c7acdbab877ce7de54bfc756"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "patch"
          ],
          "url": "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/c4321b9968342716f34bc5f10de6cac3c0567e68"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "patch"
          ],
          "url": "https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/730d1e783c339ec696a1f77f2eee6f4b52cb6c37"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "discovery": "EXTERNAL"
      },
      "title": "pgAdmin 4: Files opened in a storage directory follow a symbolic link, hard link or FIFO planted after the containment check"
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007",
    "assignerShortName": "PostgreSQL",
    "cveId": "CVE-2026-116250",
    "datePublished": "2026-10-30T19:55:18.713Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-10-25T16:26:16.420Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-30T19:55:18.713Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
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  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.2"
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