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Critical USN-4843-1 21 CVEs

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Published Mar 16, 2021 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly
managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this
vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only
affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input in the form of database names in the PHP Array export feature.
An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run arbitrary
PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
(CVE-2016-6609)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
(CVE-2016-6619)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize
input. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a
denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot
restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected Ubuntu
14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive
information to be leaked when the argument separator in a URL was
not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to
obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu
14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9866)

Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting
user access due to the behavior of the substr function on some PHP
versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login
restrictions established for users that have no password set. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This issue only affected Ubuntu
14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input in the form of parameters sent during a table editing operation. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless recursion
and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04
ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input used to generate a web page. An authenticated attacker could use this
vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS)
attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
(CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An
attacker could possibly use this to trigger a cross-site scripting
attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
(CVE-2018-12581)

Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive
information to unauthorized actors due to an error in its transformation
feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak
the contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An
attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross-site scripting attack.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack
via a specially crafted database name. This issue only affected Ubuntu
16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An
attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross site request forgery
attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-12616)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An
attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross site request forgery
attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-12922)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack
via a specially crafted username. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-6798)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly sanitize certain input.
An attacker could use this vulnerability to possibly execute an HTML injection
or a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04
ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-19617)

CSW Research Labs discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize
input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection
attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-5504)

Giwan Go and Yelang Lee discovered that phpMyAdmin was vulnerable to an
XSS attack in the transformation feature. If a victim were to click on a
crafted link, an attacker could run malicious JavaScript on the victim's
system. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-26934)

Andre Sá discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain SQL
statements in the search feature. A remote, authenticated attacker could
use this to inject malicious SQL into a query. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-26935)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS phpmyadmin 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS phpmyadmin 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS phpmyadmin 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS phpmyadmin 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 21

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9218
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6609
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6619
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6630
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9849
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9866
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18264
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000014
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000015
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7260
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12581
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19968
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19970
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6798
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11768
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12616
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12922
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-19617
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-5504
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-26934
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-26935