CVE-2008-5621

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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

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.4 and 3.x before 3.1.1.0 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via a link or IMG tag to tbl_structure.php with a modified table parameter. NOTE: other unspecified pages are also reachable, but they have the same root cause. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct SQL injection attacks and execute arbitrary code.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-7382 webapps php verified

Michael Brooks · 2008-12-08

phpMyAdmin 3.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4:2.11.8.1-5`
sid	Fixed	`4:2.11.8.1-5`
bullseye	Fixed	`4:2.11.8.1-5`
bookworm	Fixed	`4:2.11.8.1-5`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5621

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

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