PMASA-2017-5
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2017-5
Date: 2017-01-24
Summary
Cookie attribute injection attack
Description
A vulnerability was found where, under some circumstances, an attacker can inject arbitrary values in the browser cookies. This was incompletely fixed in PMASA-2016-18.
Severity
We consider this to be non-critical.
Mitigation factor
Properly configured server which sets PHP_SELF is not affected by this.
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.6) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.6 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2017-1000016
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.