CVE-2013-3238

critical

Description

phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8 and 4.x before 4.0.0-rc3 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a /e\x00 sequence, which is not properly handled before making a preg_replace function call within the "Replace table prefix" feature.

References

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0133

https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/ffa720d90a79c1f33cf4c5a33403d09a67b42a66

https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/dedd542cdaf1606ca9aa3f6f8f8adb078d8ad549

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2013-3176

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2013-2.php

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:160

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25136

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00181.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104936.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104770.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104725.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0217.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-04-26

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.28851