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PMASA-2016-42

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-42

Date: 2016-07-15

Summary

SQL injection attack as control user

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the user interface preference feature where a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Mitigation factor

The server must have a control user account created in MySQL and configured in phpMyAdmin; installations without a control user are not vulnerable.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, or 4.0.10.17 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6619

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 team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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