Medium severity · published Dec 11, 2018
CVE-2018-19970
In phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4, an XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name
6.1
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4, an XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
PH
Phpmyadmin · Phpmyadmin
4.0.0 before 4.8.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19970
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19970
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106181
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-16
Patch
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-8/
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