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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-6798 json

phpMyAdmin SQL injection in Designer feature

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-f732-fxh6-g4qj , EUVD-2022-3712

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted username can be used to trigger a SQL injection attack through the designer feature.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.8.5
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.9.1+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6798

  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6798

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-1.2
  • phpMyAdmin Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.0 4.8.5-bp150.3.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1openSUSE-SU-2019:0194-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +13 more 4.8.5-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-6798

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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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-2019-6798 updated cvss 6.8

phpMyAdmin: Multiple issues fixed in 4.8.5 version

  • 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

Exploit prediction

3.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
<4.8.5
4.8.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

Sources

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