🛡️ CVE-2021-43008 — adminer

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in Adminer

Improper Access Control in Adminer versions 1.12.0 to 4.6.2 (fixed in version 4.6.3) allows an attacker to achieve Arbitrary File Read on the remote server by requesting the Adminer to connect to a remote MySQL database.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-43008 is classified as CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. Files intended to stay internal are reachable from outside the application.

Affected software

CVE-2021-43008 is recorded against 1 package.

  • vrana/adminer (from 1.12.0 up to 4.6.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 April 2022 and last revised on 20 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
podalirius.net (Web)
sansec.io (Web)
www.adminer.org (Web)

CVE-2021-43008 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-04-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vrana/adminer 1.12.0 4.6.3

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