What is CVE-2023-40619?

CVE-2023-40619 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Phppgadmin Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-09-20.

How severe is CVE-2023-40619?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-40619 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deserialization in Phppgadmin Project

CVE-2023-40619

phpPgAdmin 7.14.4 and earlier is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which may lead to remote code execution because user-controlled data is directly passed to the PHP 'unserialize()' function in multiple places. An example is the functionality to manage tables in 'tables.php' where the 'ma[]' POST parameter is deserialized.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.011 (62.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Phppgadmin_project Phppgadmin
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-40619?: CVE-2023-40619 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Phppgadmin Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-09-20.
How severe is CVE-2023-40619?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-40619 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.