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🛡️ CVE-2025-54119 — adodb-php

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The ADOdb sqlite3 driver allows SQL injection

Improper escaping of a query parameter may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements when the code using ADOdb connects to a sqlite3 database and calls the metaColumns(), metaForeignKeys() or metaIndexes() methods with a crafted table name.

Note that the indicated Severity corresponds to a worst-case usage scenario, e.g. allowing user-supplied data to be sent as-is to the above-mentioned methods.

Impact

SQLite3 driver.

Patches

Vulnerability is fixed in ADOdb 5.22.10 (https://github.com/ADOdb/ADOdb/commit/5b8bd52cdcffefb4ecded1b399c98cfa516afe03).

Workarounds

Only pass controlled data to metaColumns(), metaForeignKeys() and metaIndexes() method's $table parameter.

Credits

Thanks to Marco Nappi (@mrcnpp) for reporting this vulnerability.

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-54119 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2025-54119 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • adodb/adodb-php (fixed in 5.22.10)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 4 August 2025 and last revised on 3 November 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.debian.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

adodb/adodb-php has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-89: SQL Injection) in other software:

CVE-2025-54119 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-11-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
adodb/adodb-php — 5.22.10
unknown — —

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