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Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-6798

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted username can be used to trigger a SQL injection attack through the designer feature.

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CVE-2019-6798
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1 Nov 2026, 04:48 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-6798

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Jan 2019, 17:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted username can be used to trigger a SQL injection attack through the designer feature.

osv:CVE-2019-6798
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6798",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-6798",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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      ],
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.300651021Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-2/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2019-6798",
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      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430654,
  "published_at": "2019-01-26T17:29:00.247+00:00"
}