CVE-2025-43960

high

Description

Adminer 4.8.1, when using Monolog for logging, allows a Denial of Service (memory consumption) via a crafted serialized payload (e.g., using s:1000000000), leading to a PHP Object Injection issue. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can trigger this by sending a malicious serialized object, which forces excessive memory usage, rendering Adminer’s interface unresponsive and causing a server-level DoS. While the server may recover after several minutes, multiple simultaneous requests can cause a complete crash requiring manual intervention.

References

https://www.adminer.org

https://github.com/vrana/adminer/compare/v4.8.1...v4.8.2

https://github.com/far00t01/CVE-2025-43960

https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-25

Updated: 2025-08-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00111