CVE-2018-19968 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2018-19968 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.5
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1119245 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2018:4124-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:41 2023
openSUSE-SU-2018:4125-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:41 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 12	`phpMyAdmin >= 4.8.4-32.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1009
SUSE Package Hub 15	`phpMyAdmin >= 4.8.4-bp150.3.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1009
openSUSE Leap 15.0	`phpMyAdmin >= 4.8.4-lp150.2.12.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1009
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`phpMyAdmin >= 5.1.1-1.2` `phpMyAdmin-apache >= 5.1.1-1.2` `phpMyAdmin-lang >= 5.1.1-1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11171

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 12	phpMyAdmin	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15	phpMyAdmin	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Dec 12 17:32:21 2018
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:05:55 2025