CVE record · CVE-2026-116238

pgAdmin 4: The failed login limit can be bypassed, and Flask-Security's own views skip pgAdmin's login and password checks

CVSS 9.2 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0040 · 34th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.2: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: PostgreSQL) at 30 Oct 2026, 19:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4
  • affected before 9.19 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-116238
CNA
PostgreSQL
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-307 · CWE-863
Published
30 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (PostgreSQL)
9.2 Critical 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (PostgreSQL)Used for this record
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0040, the 34th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2026, 20:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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