CVE-2020-26935
A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 65.7%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 65.73% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Affected
- phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin · opensuse/backports sle · opensuse/leap · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 65.7% on 17 October 2026 to 65.7% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FHST4E5IJG7IKZTTW3R6MEZPVHJZ472K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXK37YEHSDYCIPQSYEMN2OFTP2ZLM7DO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNLGHVDNAEZEGRTUESSSQFM7MZTHIDQ5/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-35Third Party Advisory
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-6/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2020-4281Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FHST4E5IJG7IKZTTW3R6MEZPVHJZ472K/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXK37YEHSDYCIPQSYEMN2OFTP2ZLM7DO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNLGHVDNAEZEGRTUESSSQFM7MZTHIDQ5/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-35Third Party Advisory
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-6/Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.