CVE-2026-116246

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductpgAdmin 4
PublishedOct 30, 2026
First seenNov 4, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • pgadmin.org pgAdmin 49.19 or later
  • pgadmin pgadmin_49.19 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4v < 9.199.19
pgadmin pgadmin_4v < 9.199.19

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