CVE-2026-7820
Essential information
- Published
- 11/05/2026 16:17
- Modified
- 11/05/2026 17:16
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 6.9 MEDIUM (v3) 6.9 MEDIUM (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Privileges required
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- LOW
- Confidentiality (S)
- NONE
- Integrity (V)
- LOW
- Integrity (S)
- NONE
- Availability (V)
- NONE
- Availability (S)
- NONE
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
Improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts (CWE-307) in pgAdmin 4.
pgAdmin enforces MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS only inside its custom /authenticate/login view. Flask-Security's default /login view, which is registered automatically by security.init_app() and is reachable on every server, never consulted the User.locked field: pgAdmin's User model relied on Flask-Security's UserMixin.is_locked() (which always returns 'not locked') and Flask-Login's is_active (which only checks the active column, not locked). An attacker who triggered an account lockout via /authenticate/login could therefore obtain a session by re-submitting valid credentials directly to /login, defeating the brute-force-protection control for accounts using the INTERNAL authentication source. The same bypass also means that login attempts via /login are never rate-limited, so an attacker can perform an unbounded online password-guessing attack against INTERNAL accounts regardless of MAX_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS.
Fix overrides User.is_active and User.is_locked() so the locked column is enforced on every authentication path. LDAP, OAuth2, Kerberos, and Webserver users are not reachable by this bypass because they have no local password and are rejected by Flask-Security's LoginForm.validate before the locked check; the lockout itself is also internal-only (the /authenticate/login view filters by auth_source=INTERNAL).
This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- f86ef6dc-4d3a-42ad-8f28-e6d5547a5007
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| pgadmin / pgadmin | cpe:2.3:a:pgadmin:pgadmin:<9.15:*:*:*:*:*:* |