Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-26935

critical

CVE-2020-26935

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 ...

Published Modified CWE 89
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Bitnami9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Bitnami. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databasephpmyadmin4.9.6, 5.0.3
composer::GitHub Security Advisory Composerphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin4.9.6, 5.0.3
composer::PHP Security Advisories Databasephpmyadmin/phpmyadminno fix listed
debian 11phpmyadmin4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
debian 12phpmyadmin4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
debian 13phpmyadmin4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
debian 14phpmyadmin4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
debian 9phpmyadmin4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2
echophpmyadmin4:4.9.7+dfsg1-1
ubuntu 18.04phpmyadmin4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
ubuntu 18.04-ESMphpmyadmin4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
ubuntu 20.04-ESMphpmyadmin4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

References

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