Advisories for Composer/Vrana/Adminer package

2025

Adminer PHP Object Injection issue leads to Denial of Service

Adminer 4.8.1, when using Monolog for logging, allows a Denial of Service (memory consumption) via a crafted serialized payload (e.g., using s:1000000000), leading to a PHP Object Injection issue. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can trigger this by sending a malicious serialized object, which forces excessive memory usage, rendering Adminer’s interface unresponsive and causing a server-level DoS. While the server may recover after several minutes, multiple simultaneous requests can cause a complete …

2024
2022
2021

Cross-site Scripting

Adminer is open-source database management software. A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Adminer to affects users of MySQL, MariaDB, PgSQL and SQLite. XSS is in most cases prevented by strict CSP in all modern browsers. The only exception is when Adminer is using a pdo_ extension to communicate with the database (it is used if the native extensions are not enabled). In browsers without CSP, Adminer to are affected. As a …

2018