MEDIUMCVSS v3.1 6.5Vulnerability

CVE-2026-116246

To pass a server's password to psql and to the utilities pgAdmin 4 runs as background processes, the server manager wrote it into pgAdmin's own process environment: as PGPASSWORD for the PSQL tool, and under a per-process variable for a utility. Nothing removed it afterwards. pgAdmin's environment is shared by every user's requests and copied into every process it starts, so in server mode another user's later PSQL session or utility inherited the password, and libpq used PGPASSWORD for any connection made without a password of its own, letting one user connect with another user's saved password. The fix puts the password only into the environment built for the process that needs it and starts psql with a copy of pgAdmin's environment instead of the environment itself. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.19.

Properties

Severity
MEDIUM
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-31T00:12:10.805837+00:00
Cvss score
6.5
Cvss severity
MEDIUM
Retrieved at
2026-10-31T00:13:33+00:00
Score
6.5
Last source
NVD
Cvss version
3.1
Cve id
CVE-2026-116246
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
First seen by Signal
2026-10-31T00:13:33+00:00
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Published at
2026-10-30T20:17:04.603
Last modified
2026-10-30T20:17:04.603

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