PMASA-2016-40
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-40
Date: 2016-07-14
Summary
SQL injection attack
Description
A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export functionality.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be serious
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 or newer, or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-6617
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 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.