CVE-2008-5621

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    CVE-2008-5621

    Published: 17 Dec 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.4 and 3.x before 3.1.1.0 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via a link or IMG tag to tbl_structure.php with a modified table parameter. NOTE: other unspecified pages are also reachable, but they have the same root cause. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct SQL injection attacks and execute arbitrary code.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/33076, http://secunia.com/advisories/33146, http://secunia.com/advisories/33246, http://secunia.com/advisories/33822, http://secunia.com/advisories/33912, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-32.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1723, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2008-10.php, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3402, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3501, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2008-10.php, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32720, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html, http://osvdb.org/50894, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4753, http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20081222-1/, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/12/1, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47168, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7382, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00784.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
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