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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-x394-g9j8-x7mf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432299

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 4.8.x before 4.8.2, in which an attacker can include (view and
 potentially execute) files on the server. The vulnerability comes from a portion of code where pages are
 redirected and loaded within phpMyAdmin, and an improper test for whitelisted pages. An attacker must be
 authenticated, except in the "$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] = true" case (where an attacker can specify any
 host he/she is already in control of, and execute arbitrary code on phpMyAdmin) and the
 "$cfg['ServerDefault'] = 0" case (which bypasses the login requirement and runs the vulnerable code
 without any authentication). (CVE-2018-12613)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x394-g9j8-x7mf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432299

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.47

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution)

Elliot (phpMyAdmin 4.8.1 RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12613

BID: 104532

cwe: CWE-287