CVE-2008-5621

NameCVE-2008-5621
DescriptionCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.4 and 3.x before 3.1.1.0 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via a link or IMG tag to tbl_structure.php with a modified table parameter. NOTE: other unspecified pages are also reachable, but they have the same root cause. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct SQL injection attacks and execute arbitrary code.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1723-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
phpmyadmin (PTS)bullseye4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm4:5.2.1+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie4:5.2.2-really5.2.2+20241130+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
phpmyadminsourceetch4:2.9.1.1-10DSA-1723-1
phpmyadminsource(unstable)4:2.11.8.1-5

Notes

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2008-10/
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0d4adbfc1996c7d715b0ac9fa39a2ac14d8b28ad (2.11 branch)
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/01685c90aaba943511de0496e7ecb7fe49fa765b

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