CVE-2008-5587: Phppgadmin

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 12.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/lib.inc.php in phpPgAdmin 4.2.1 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the _language parameter to index.php.

Affected products

• Phppgadmin Phppgadmin: up to and including 4.2.1; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.4.1 only; version 3.5 only; …

Published 2008-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.