PMASA-2016-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-3

Date: 2016-01-24

Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities.

Description

• With a crafted table name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database search page.
• With a crafted SET value or a crafted search query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attacks in the zoom search page.
• With a crafted hostname header, it is possible to trigger an XSS attacks in the home page.

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.

Mitigation factor

These vulnerabilities can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from accessing the required pages.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.13), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.13 or newer, 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-2040

CWE IDs: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• 9f3488fc3ab6b83618dbb4bebbea4b973764e2ac
• 0ce4fd2750491a54d27f94cc1403f9da21738aa6
• 27eb98faedcdcd0b856577fcbdfe3e87b2445345

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 2b3f915f72bfe7eb9ae60a69582f041ddc55f663
• 75de41635d387e1c3c8d71a746241502a90c8422
• 1414d60cbfe01a2d08ab9d5e6a7178a6323fca68

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

• 75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41c32a7dbc
• edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef46c296418
• aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399ca1742f2

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.

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