Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository adodb/adodb prior to 5.20.21.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6825-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the PDO driver in ADOdb was incorrectly handling string quotes. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to

    perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7405)

    It was discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling GET parameters in

    test.php. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute

    cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu

    16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4855)

    Emmet Leahy discovered that ADOdb was incorrectly handling string quotes in PostgreSQL connections. A     remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2021-3850)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5101 advisory.

  - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository adodb/adodb prior to 5.20.21.
    (CVE-2021-3850)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2912 advisory.

  - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository adodb/adodb prior to 5.20.21.
    (CVE-2021-3850)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
200273	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : ADOdb vulnerabilities (USN-6825-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
158897	Debian DSA-5101-1 : libphp-adodb - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
157401	Debian DLA-2912-1 : libphp-adodb - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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