pgAdmin <= 7.6 Authenticated Remote Command Execution (CVE-2023-5002)¶

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pgAdmin is a popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world.

A flaw was found in pgAdmin. This issue occurs when the pgAdmin server HTTP API validates the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as pg_dump and pg_restore. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 7.7 failed to properly control the server code executed on this API, allowing an authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the server.

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Vulnerable Environment¶

Execute following command to start a pgAdmin 7.6 server:

docker compose up -d

After the server is started, browse the http://your-ip:5050 to see the default login page of pgAdmin.

Something we should know before exploiting the issue¶

CVE-2023-5002 is a pathes bypass for previous issue CVE-2022-4223. There are 2 updates from official patches:

Added @login_required to validate_binary_path function, not allowed unauthenticated user to access this API
Added os.path.exists() to check if the user provided parameter is a valid path

Unfortunately, we can only bypass the second patch, so the CVE-2023-5002 is a authenticated vulerability.

Exploit¶

Select "Tools -> Storage Manager" to open the filemanager dialog:

Create a new folder which name is a crafted payload ";id;#:

Full path of this folder is /var/lib/pgadmin/storage/vulhub_example.com/";id;#, we will use this path to complete the exploitation.

Go to "File -> Preferences" to open the setting dialog, open the "Paths -> Binary paths" panel.

Fill the /var/lib/pgadmin/storage/vulhub_example.com/";id;# into any field of "PostgreSQL Binary Path" then click validate:

As you can see, the id command is executed successful: