Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

CVE-2005-0653

phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 does not properly grant permissions on tables with an underscore in the name, which grants remote authenticated users more privileges than intended.

Published 2005-05-02 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (50.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 50.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

phpMyAdmin — versions 2.6.1

References

www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-07.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch)
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch)