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CVE-2014-9218

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x...

5.0 MediumPublic exploitFix available

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Exploit likelihood

11.5%Up 0.7 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
CVE-2014-9218
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
CVE-2014-9218
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-9043 No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
EUVD-2014-9043
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-756j-8p5m-2p7m No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x...

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
GHSA-756j-8p5m-2p7m
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
CVE-2014-9218
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2014-9218 No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9218
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVMGASA-2014-0510 No score

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes CVE-2014-9218

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerabilities:

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.8, with very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin (CVE-2014-9218).

Record
MGASA-2014-0510
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1 No score

phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-9218 No score

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9218
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4843-1 No score

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of database names in the PHP Array export feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run arbitrary PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6609)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6619)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize input. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive information to be leaked when the argument separator in a URL was not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9866)

Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting user access due to the behavior of the substr function on some PHP versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login restrictions established for users that have no password set. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of parameters sent during a table editing operation. An attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless recursion and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input used to generate a web page. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An attacker could possibly use this to trigger a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12581)

Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive information to unauthorized actors due to an error in its transformation feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak the contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross…

Record
USN-4843-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin
Debian:12
before 4:4.2.12-2
4:4.2.12-2
phpmyadmin
Debian:13
before 4:4.2.12-2
4:4.2.12-2
phpmyadmin
Debian:14
before 4:4.2.12-2
4:4.2.12-2
phpmyadmin
Debian:6.0
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4:3.3.7-9, plus listed versions
4:3.3.7-34:3.3.7-54:3.3.7-64:3.3.7-74:3.3.7-8
4:3.3.7-9
phpmyadmin
Debian:7
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 4:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u2, plus listed versions
4:3.4.11.1-24:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u1
4:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u2
phpmyadmin
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u1, plus listed versions
4:4.2.12-2
4:4.2.12-2+deb8u1
phpmyadmin
Mageia:4
before 4.1.14.8-1.mga4
4.1.14.8-1.mga4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-54:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm14:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm24:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
before 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.9.1+dfsg1-24:4.9.2+dfsg1-14:4.9.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu14:4.9.5+dfsg1-2
4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 124 CVEs
before 4.6.5.2-1.1
4.6.5.2-1.1

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
Exploit-DBphpMyAdmin 4.0.x/4.1.x/4.2.x - Denial of Service2014-12-15

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
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In short

CVE-2014-9218 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Phpmyadmin, published December 5, 2014. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.5%, the 96th percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin 4:4.2.12-2.

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