CVE-2006-5116

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    CVE-2006-5116

    Published: 3 Oct 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.9.1-rc1 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as another user by (1) directly setting a token in the URL though dynamic variable evaluation and (2) unsetting arbitrary variables via the _REQUEST array, related to (a) libraries/common.lib.php, (b) session.inc.php, and (c) url_generating.lib.php. NOTE: the PHP unset function vector is covered by CVE-2006-3017.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/22126, http://secunia.com/advisories/22781, http://secunia.com/advisories/23086, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1207, http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_072006.130.html, http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1-rc1.tar.gz?download, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20253, http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-October/001067.html, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1677, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-5, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447491/100/0/threaded, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29301

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High