Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting phppgadmin/phppgadmin package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPPGADMINPHPPGADMIN-5912578
  • published21 Sept 2023
  • disclosed20 Sept 2023
  • creditFlorian Walter

Introduced: 20 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-40619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for phppgadmin/phppgadmin.

Overview

phppgadmin/phppgadmin is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. It is perfect for PostgreSQL DBAs, newbies, and hosting services.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data when the unserialize() function is used. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by manipulating the ma[] POST parameter in tables.php.

Note: This is only exploitable if user-controlled data is directly passed to the function.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

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