The MASTER_PASSWORD_HOOK setting, introduced in pgAdmin 4 7.2, lets an administrator configure an external command that returns a per-user encryption key, with %u in the configured string replaced by the current user's name. The previous implementation substituted the username directly into the command string and executed the result with subprocess.Popen(..., shell=True). Because the username can originate from an external authentication source (OAuth/OIDC claims, Kerberos, webserver auth) rather than a value pgAdmin fully controls, a username containing shell metacharacters (';', '$()', backticks, pipes, '&&', newlines) allowed an authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands as the pgAdmin service account in any deployment where the configured hook string uses %u.
Fix tokenises the trusted, administrator-configured hook string into an argument vector first (using shlex in POSIX-quoting mode, with backslash-escaping disabled so Windows-style paths are not mis-parsed), substitutes the untrusted username into the individual argv elements, and executes with shell=False. The username is therefore always confined to a single argv element; any shell metacharacters it contains are inert. Administrators whose MASTER_PASSWORD_HOOK previously relied on shell features (pipes, redirection, environment-variable expansion, globbing) within the hook string itself must move that logic into the invoked script, since it is no longer interpreted by a shell.
This issue affects pgAdmin 4: from 7.2 before 9.17.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/e7a85767314e7b0fe0b35fe80b9c1af38f48dff6 | Patch |
| https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/ea7e798aac27174d2bacee1d6e136bed76a95e23 | Patch |
| https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/10191 | Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
07 Aug 2026, 17:42
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| First Time |
Pgadmin
Pgadmin pgadmin 4 |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:pgadmin:pgadmin_4:*:*:*:*:*:postgresql:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/e7a85767314e7b0fe0b35fe80b9c1af38f48dff6 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/commit/ea7e798aac27174d2bacee1d6e136bed76a95e23 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/10191 - Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory |
31 Jul 2026, 16:16
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-07-31 16:16
Updated : 2026-08-07 17:42
NVD link : CVE-2026-17347
Mitre link : CVE-2026-17347
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-17347
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Products Affected
pgadmin
- pgadmin_4
