SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-xhqq-554j-p4x8)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434840

Description

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

- Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the relational schema implementation in phpMyAdmin 3.4.x
before 3.4.3.2 allow remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory
traversal sequences in an export type field, related to (1) libraries/schema/User_Schema.class.php and (2)
schema_export.php. (CVE-2011-2718)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhqq-554j-p4x8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434840

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2718

BID: 48874

cwe: CWE-22