High severity · published Jan 9, 2020
CVE-2020-5504
In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page
8.8
CVSS
39%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page. An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)39.0% · higher than 99% 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 4.9.4; 5.0.0 before 5.0.1 · source: NVD
SL
Suse Linux Enterprise Server · Suse
12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5504
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5504
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00024.html
Exploit
https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2020-5504-phpmyadmin.html
github.com
https://github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2020-5504.md
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00011.html
Patch
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-1/
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