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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-xc97-r49q-cxgc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432410

Description

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

 - An attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4 to leak the contents of a local file because of an error
 in the transformation feature. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage
 tables, although these can easily be created in any database to which the attacker has access. An attacker
 must have valid credentials to log in to phpMyAdmin; this vulnerability does not allow an attacker to
 circumvent the login system. (CVE-2018-19968)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc97-r49q-cxgc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432410

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19968

BID: 106178

cwe: CWE-200