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CVE-2012-5159 in the critical feed json

phpMyAdmin 3.5.2.2, as distributed by the cdnetworks-kr-1 mirror during an unspecified time frame in 2012, contains an externally introduce…

published 2012-09-25 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5082

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
74.5%
EPSS 74.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

phpMyAdmin 3.5.2.2, as distributed by the cdnetworks-kr-1 mirror during an unspecified time frame in 2012, contains an externally introduced modification (Trojan Horse) in server_sync.php, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an eval injection attack.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-5159 updated cvss 6.8

phpmyadmin: cdnetworks-kr-1 used to distribute modified archive of phpMyAdmin, containing a backdoor (PMASA-2012-5)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/phpmyadmin_3522_backdoor)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

74.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.