# CVE-2025-0218: pgAgent scheduled batch job scripts are created in a predictable temporary directory potentially allowing a denial of service

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.2.3
- Published: 2025-01-07 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- n/a pgAgent: from 4, fixed in 4.2.3

## Description

When batch jobs are executed by pgAgent, a script is created in a temporary directory and then executed. In versions of pgAgent prior to 4.2.3, an insufficiently seeded random number generator is used when generating the directory name, leading to the possibility for a local attacker to pre-create the directory and thus prevent pgAgent from executing jobs, disrupting scheduled tasks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a pgAgent, upgrade to a fixed version (4.2.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgagent/commit/1ecd193a2be3a3dc9e98f369495e1a792e6d508c

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