CVE-2008-4096

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libraries/database_interface.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a request to server_databases.php with a sort_by parameter containing PHP sequences, which are processed by create_function.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: through 2.11.9; 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4 (+45)

References

http://fd.the-wildcat.de/pma_e36a091q11.php
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/48196
http://secunia.com/advisories/31884
http://secunia.com/advisories/31918
http://secunia.com/advisories/32034
http://secunia.com/advisories/33822
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-32.xml
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080916-1/
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202
http://www.nabble.com/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.1-is-released-td19497113.html

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