| Name | CVE-2008-3197 |
| Description | Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.7.1 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via a link or IMG tag to (1) the db parameter in the "Creating a Database" functionality (db_create.php), and (2) the convcharset and collation_connection parameters related to an unspecified program that modifies the connection character set. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1641-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| phpmyadmin (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4:5.2.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4:5.2.1+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
this only allows via csrf to create an empty database.
this would take a lot of work to get it only to the 'annoying' level, let alone a DoS
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2008-5/
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/13fbcf4107476dc2d53a8dde707667172f807641
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/084fd3ed16290339ee98a14d067932f638974044 (useless?)