PMASA-2009-4
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2009-4
Date: 2009-04-14
Summary
Insufficient output sanitizing when generating configuration file.
Description
Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST request to include arbitrary PHP code in generated configuration file. Combined with ability to save files on server, this can allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code. This issue is on different parameters than PMASA-2009-3 and it was missed out of our radar because it was not existing in 2.11.x branch.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be critical.
Mitigation factor
Additional steps from administrator are required to actually exploit this issue (web server writable config directory has to be created).
Affected Versions
For 2.11.x: versions are not affected.<br /> For 3.x: versions before 3.1.3.2.<br />
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.1.3.2 or apply patches listed below.
References
Thanks to Tenable Network Security, who have discovered this issue and reported it to us.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2009-1285
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.