CVE-2008-4096
highpriority · attend · 48EPSS 0.112 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
libraries/database_interface.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a request to server_databases.php with a sort_by parameter containing PHP sequences, which are processed by create_function.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-32383phpMyAdmin 3.2 - 'server_databases.php' Remote Command Executionfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (53)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (48)
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- http://fd.the-wildcat.de/pma_e36a091q11.phpenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/48196enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31884enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31918enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32034enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33822enisa_euvd
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-32.xmlenisa_euvd
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