CVE-2005-4079

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The register_globals emulation in phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 rc1 allows remote attackers to exploit other vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin by modifying the import_blacklist variable in grab_globals.php, which can then be used to overwrite other variables.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.7.0_rc1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17925/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17957
http://secunia.com/advisories/18618
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/237
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-03.xml
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_252005.110.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21508
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-9
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418834/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423142/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15761

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