VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9218

medium
Published 2014-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

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.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35539 dos php
Javer Nieto & Andres Rojas · 2014-12-15

phpMyAdmin 4.0.x/4.1.x/4.2.x - Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.2.12-2
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.2.12-2
debian debiansidfixed4:4.2.12-2
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.2.12-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.9.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.10.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.13

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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