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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-c8wj-q36q-3wg4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434143

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. When the AllowArbitraryServer configuration setting is
 set to true, with the use of a rogue MySQL server, an attacker can read any file on the server that the
 web server's user can access. This is related to the mysql.allow_local_infile PHP configuration, and the
 inadvertent ignoring of "options(MYSQLI_OPT_LOCAL_INFILE" calls. (CVE-2019-6799)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c8wj-q36q-3wg4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434143

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6799

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6799

BID: 106736

cwe: CWE-22