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Adminer before 6.1.1 RCE via UTF-8 BOM SQLite ATTACH Bypass

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • adminer >= 0, < 6.1.1

CWE
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSS
8.6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
farisv
Description
Adminer before 6.1.1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated SQLite users to bypass ATTACH and VACUUM INTO restrictions by prefixing statements with a UTF-8 byte-order mark. Attackers can attach a database file at a PHP-served path and create a table named with PHP code to execute it as the web server user.

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