CVE-2025-43960 is a high-severity PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting Adminer 4.8.1 when configured to use Monolog for logging. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by sending a crafted serialized payload, causing excessive memory consumption and a Denial of Service (DoS) on the Adminer interface and potentially the server. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.6, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adminer:adminer:4.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
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