CVE-2020-5504 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page. An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Phpmyadmin	Phpmyadmin
Suse	Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin::::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00024.html
https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2020-5504-phpmyadmin.html
https://github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2020-5504.md
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00011.html
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2020-1/

History

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://github.com/MarkLee131/awesome-web-pocs/blob/main/CVE-2020-5504.md

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-01-09T21:56:22.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-16T14:13:38.775Z

Reserved: 2020-01-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-5504

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-09T22:15:13.863

Modified: 2025-04-16T15:15:46.240

Link: CVE-2020-5504

Redhat

No data.

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