adminer — security advisory
Adminer before 5.4.3 fails to sanitize the server field before constructing a PDO DSN string, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject ODBC parameters via semicolons. Attackers can inject TraceFile and TraceOn parameters to write PHP code to the web root, achieving remote code execution when the trace file is accessed.
- Products
- adminer
- Affected versions
- 4.8.1-1, 4.8.1-2, 4.8.1-4, 5.1.0-1, 5.2.1+dfsg-1, 5.3.0+dfsg-1, 5.4.0+dfsg-1, 5.4.1+dfsg-1, 5.4.2+dfsg-1, 5.4.3+dfsg-1, 5.4.4+dfsg-1, 6.0.0-1, 6.0.1-1, 6.0.2-1, 6.1.0-1, 6.1.1-1, 6.1.2-1
- Fixed versions
- 5.4.3+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-56705
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 09:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Adminer before 5.4.3 fails to sanitize the server field before constructing a PDO DSN string, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject ODBC parameters via semicolons. Attackers can inject TraceFile and TraceOn parameters to write PHP code to the web root, achieving remote code execution when the trace file is accessed.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56705
adminer
Fixed versions: Not specified
adminer
Fixed versions: Not specified
adminer
Fixed versions: 5.4.3+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56705",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "Adminer before 5.4.3 fails to sanitize the server field before constructing a PDO DSN string, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject ODBC parameters via semicolons. Attackers can inject TraceFile and TraceOn parameters to write PHP code to the web root, achieving remote code execution when the trace file is accessed.",
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{
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"5.4.0+dfsg-1",
"5.4.1+dfsg-1",
"5.4.2+dfsg-1",
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"6.0.2-1",
"6.1.0-1",
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"6.1.0-1",
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"modified": "2026-10-13T10:00:15.590540799Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-56705"
]
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 307607,
"published_at": "2026-08-25T02:16:42.33+00:00"
}