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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-vqcm-r62w-w437)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431791

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - libraries/auth/swekey/swekey.auth.lib.php in the Swekey authentication feature in phpMyAdmin 3.x before
 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.1 assigns values to arbitrary parameters referenced in the query string,
 which allows remote attackers to modify the SESSION superglobal array via a crafted request, related to a
 "remote variable manipulation vulnerability." (CVE-2011-2505)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqcm-r62w-w437

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 431791

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 97.25

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2011

Exploitable With

Elliot (Phpmyadmin 3.x RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2505

BID: 48563

cwe: CWE-94