CVE-2008-5587

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/lib.inc.php in phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the _language parameter to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-7363 webapps php verified

dun · 2008-12-06

phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 - '_language' Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.2.1-1.1`
sid	Fixed	`4.2.1-1.1`
forky	Fixed	`4.2.1-1.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5587

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.