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PMASA-2016-48

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-48

Date: 2016-07-24

Summary

Detect if user is logged in

Description

A vulnerability was reported where an attacker can determine whether a user is logged in to phpMyAdmin.

The user's session, username, and password are not compromised by this vulnerability.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

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-2016-6625

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 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 4.0 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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