PMASA-2016-57

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-57

Date: 2016-11-25

Summary

Open redirection

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where a user can be tricked in to following a link leading to phpMyAdmin, which after authentication redirects to another malicious site.

The attacker must sniff the user's valid phpMyAdmin token.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

All 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.16, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-4412

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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