CVE-2013-3238

medium

Published 2013-04-26 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

Description

phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8 and 4.x before 4.0.0-rc3 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a /e\x00 sequence, which is not properly handled before making a preg_replace function call within the "Replace table prefix" feature.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/phpmyadmin_preg_replace rank 600

phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution via preg_replace()

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.0.0`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.1.0`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.2.0`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.2.1`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.2.2`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.3.0`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.4`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.5`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.6`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.7`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.5.8`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.0.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.