PMASA-2016-61

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-61

Date: 2016-11-25

Updated: 2016-12-06

Summary

Username rule matching issues

Description

A vulnerability in username matching for the allow/deny rules may result in wrong matches and detection of the username in the rule due to non-constant execution time.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be severe.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5, 4.4.15.9, 4.0.10.18, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-9850

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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