PMASA-2015-4
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-4
Date: 2015-09-08
Summary
Vulnerability that allows bypassing the reCaptcha test
Description
This vulnerability allows to complete the reCaptcha test and subsequently perform a brute force attack to guess user credentials without having to complete further reCaptcha tests.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since reCaptcha is an additional opt-in security measure.
Mitigation factor
This vulnerability only affect installations with reCaptcha test enabled.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.3.x (prior to 4.3.13.2) and 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.14.1) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.3.13.2 or newer, or 4.4.14.1 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2015-6830
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.3 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.