CVE-2025-12764 (GCVE-0-2025-12764)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-13 13:00 – Updated: 2025-11-13 14:02
VLAI
Title
pgAdmin 4: LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAP authentication flow.
Summary
pgAdmin <= 9.9  is affected by an LDAP injection vulnerability in the LDAP authentication flow that allows an attacker to inject special LDAP characters in the username, causing the DC/LDAP server and the client to process an unusual amount of data DOS.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-13 14:01 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-90 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an LDAP Query ('LDAP Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
pgadmin.org pgAdmin 4 Affected: 0 , < 9.10 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-11-04 18:30
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