CVE-2008-3197

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    CVE-2008-3197

    Published: 16 Jul 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.7.1 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via a link or IMG tag to (1) the db parameter in the "Creating a Database" functionality (db_create.php), and (2) the convcharset and collation_connection parameters related to an unspecified program that modifies the connection character set.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/31097, http://secunia.com/advisories/31115, http://secunia.com/advisories/33822, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2116/references, http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_ConvertCharset_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf, http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_CreateDB_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html, http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=613660, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/6, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-5, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43846, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00590.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00652.html

    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