| Summary | 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. |
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| Publication Date | May 12, 2026, 1:17 a.m. |
| Registration Date | May 12, 2026, 4:14 a.m. |
| Last Update | May 12, 2026, 2:16 a.m. |
| CVSS3.1 : MEDIUM | |
| スコア | 6.5 |
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| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| 攻撃元区分(AV) | ネットワーク |
| 攻撃条件の複雑さ(AC) | 低 |
| 攻撃に必要な特権レベル(PR) | 不要 |
| 利用者の関与(UI) | 不要 |
| 影響の想定範囲(S) | 変更なし |
| 機密性への影響(C) | 低 |
| 完全性への影響(I) | 低 |
| 可用性への影響(A) | なし |