PMASA-2015-2

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-2

Date: 2015-05-13

Summary

XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup.

Description

By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to alter the configuration file being generated with phpMyAdmin setup.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability only affects the configuration file generation process and does not affect the effective configuration file. Moreover, the configuration file being generated is at risk only during the period when it's writable.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.10), 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.13.3), 4.3.x (prior to 4.3.13.1) and 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.6.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.10 or newer, or 4.2.13.3 or newer, or 4.3.13.1 or newer, or 4.4.6.1 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Inti De Ceukelaire (http://ceukelai.re) for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2015-3902

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-352

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• ee92eb9bab8e2d546756c1d4aec81ec7c8e44b83

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• fea1d39fef540afa4105c6fbcc849f7e516f3da8

The following commits have been made on the 4.2 branch to fix this issue:

• c903ecf6751684b6af2d079c78b1f0d09ea2bd47

The following commits have been made on the 4.3 branch to fix this issue:

• 9817bd4030de949ba9ce4cd1b3f047e22d8f66bd

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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