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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-26935 in the critical feed json

phpMyAdmin SQL injection vulnerability

published 6y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-phpmyadmin-2020-26935 , EUVD-2022-2982 , GHSA-7ff4-cv53-4cjq

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
63.7%
EPSS 63.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.9.6, 5.0.3
  • bitnami phpmyadmin 4.9.6, 5.0.3
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.9.6, 5.0.3
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26935

  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26935

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 SP1, Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12 +1 more 4.9.7-bp151.3.24.1
  • phpMyAdmin Package Hub 15 SP2, Package Hub 15 SP1, Package Hub 12 +2 more 4.9.6-bp152.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1806-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1675-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-26935 updated cvss 8.1

phpmyadmin: SQL injection vulnerability in SearchController

  • 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

63.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template phpMyAdmin < 5.0.3 - SQL Injection nuclei detection template
  • advisory.checkmarx.net https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/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
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/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
>=4.9.0, <4.9.6
>=5.0.0, <5.0.3
4.9.6
5.0.3
bitnami phpmyadmin
>=4.9.0, <4.9.6
>=5.0.0, <5.0.3
4.9.6
5.0.3

Classification

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

References

Sources

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