PMASA-2018-7

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2018-7

Date: 2018-12-07

Summary

XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

Description

By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to perform harmful SQL operations such as renaming databases, creating new tables/routines, deleting designer pages, adding/deleting users, updating user passwords, killing SQL processes, etc.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

phpMyAdmin versions 4.7.0 through 4.7.6 and 4.8.0 through 4.8.3 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.8.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Daniel Le Gall from SCRT, Mustafa Hasan (@strukt93), SI9INT and Prasetia Ari for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2018-19969

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-352

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.8 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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