PMASA-2016-28
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-28
Date: 2016-06-23
Summary
Referrer leak in transformations
Description
A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted Transformation could be used to leak information including the authentication token. This could be used to direct a CSRF attack against a user.
Furthermore, the CSP code used in version 4.0.x is outdated and has been updated to more modern standards.
Severity
We consider this to be of moderate severity
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.3), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.7), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7, or 4.0.10.16 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-5739
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
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.