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CVE-2020-26935

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 63.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32, 33
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0, 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2
• phpMyAdmin: from 4.9.0 before 4.9.6; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.3 — fixed in 4.9.6, 5.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: phpMyAdmin 4.9.6, 5.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.html
• https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00024.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FHST4E5IJG7IKZTTW3R6MEZPVHJZ472K/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXK37YEHSDYCIPQSYEMN2OFTP2ZLM7DO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNLGHVDNAEZEGRTUESSSQFM7MZTHIDQ5/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-35
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-6/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.html
• https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281

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