Critical severity · published Oct 10, 2020
CVE-2020-26935
An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3
9.8
CVSS
65.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)65.7% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BS
Backports Sle · Opensuse
15.0; 15.0; 15.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32; 33 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
PH
Phpmyadmin · Phpmyadmin
4.9.0 before 4.9.6; 5.0.0 before 5.0.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26935
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26935
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.html
Exploit
https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00024.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FHST4E5IJG7IKZTTW3R6MEZPVHJZ472K/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXK37YEHSDYCIPQSYEMN2OFTP2ZLM7DO/
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