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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-19968 json

phpMyAdmin Local file inclusion through transformation feature

published 2018-12-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-xc97-r49q-cxgc , EUVD-2022-5764

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4 to leak the contents of a local file because of an error in the transformation feature. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables, although these can easily be created in any database to which the attacker has access. An attacker must have valid credentials to log in to phpMyAdmin; this vulnerability does not allow an attacker to circumvent the login system.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.8.4
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.8.4
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.9.1+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19968

  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19968

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.8.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-19968

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-19968 updated

phpMyAdmin: Multiple security issues fixed in 4.8.4

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
<4.8.4
4.8.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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