CVE-2026-12045
Description
A flaw was found in the pgAdmin 4 AI Assistant. An attacker with the ability to influence database content that the assistant reads can exploit a transaction bypass vulnerability through prompt injection. This allows the attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries with the privileges of the pgAdmin user's database role. If the pgAdmin user has superuser privileges, this can lead to remote code execution on the database server.
Statement
This Important flaw in the pgAdmin 4 AI Assistant allows an attacker to bypass read-only transaction protections through prompt injection. By influencing database content that the assistant reads, an attacker can execute arbitrary SQL queries with the privileges of the pgAdmin user's database role. This can escalate to remote code execution on the database server if the pgAdmin user holds superuser privileges, posing a significant risk to data integrity and system control.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Confidentiality,Integrity,Availability
Technical Impact: Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
Adversaries could execute system commands, typically by changing the SQL statement to redirect output to a file that can then be executed.
Confidentiality
Technical Impact: Read Application Data
Since SQL databases generally hold sensitive data, loss of confidentiality is a frequent problem with SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Authentication
Technical Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity; Bypass Protection Mechanism
If poor SQL commands are used to check user names and passwords or perform other kinds of authentication, it may be possible to connect to the product as another user with no previous knowledge of the password.
Access Control
Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism
If authorization information is held in a SQL database, it may be possible to change this information through the successful exploitation of a SQL injection vulnerability.
Integrity
Technical Impact: Modify Application Data
Just as it may be possible to read sensitive information, it is also possible to modify or even delete this information with a SQL injection attack.
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