Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-11579
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 26.9% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)26.9%top 2.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
An issue was discovered in Chadha PHPKB 9.0 Enterprise Edition. installer/test-connection.php (part of the installation process) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose local files on hosts running PHP before 7.2.16, or on hosts where the MySQL ALLOW LOCAL DATA INFILE option is enabled.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://shielder.it/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/CVE-2020-11579 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.shielder.it/blog/mysql-and-cve-2020-11579-exploitation/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.phpkb.com x_refsource_MISC