PT-2026-39630 · Pgadmin.Org · Pgadmin 4

Fernando Bortotti · Published 2026-05-11 · Updated 2026-05-11 · CVE-2026-7820

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-7820

Affected Products

Pgadmin 4

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7820 · Security Note
• https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/9904 · Note