PMASA-2016-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-3

Date: 2016-01-24

Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities.

Description

  • With a crafted table name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database search page.
  • With a crafted SET value or a crafted search query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attacks in the zoom search page.
  • With a crafted hostname header, it is possible to trigger an XSS attacks in the home page.

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.

Mitigation factor

These vulnerabilities can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from accessing the required pages.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.13), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.13 or newer, 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-2040

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

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 4.5 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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