CVE-2011-2719

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2011-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libraries/auth/swekey/swekey.auth.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.2 does not properly manage sessions associated with Swekey authentication, which allows remote attackers to modify the SESSION superglobal array, other superglobal arrays, and certain swekey.auth.lib.php local variables via a crafted query string, a related issue to CVE-2011-2505.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-rc1, 3.0.1, 3.0.1-rc1 (+44)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063410.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063418.html
http://osvdb.org/74112
http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin%3Ba=commit%3Bh=571cdc6ff4bf375871b594f4e06f8ad3159d1754
http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e7bb42c002885c2aca7aba4d431b8c63ae4de9b7
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jul/300
http://secunia.com/advisories/45315
http://secunia.com/advisories/45365
http://secunia.com/advisories/45515
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8322
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2286
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:124

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