Access for an unprivileged user to MySQL user list.

PMASA-2014-7

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-7

Date: 2014-07-17

Summary

Access for an unprivileged user to MySQL user list.

Description

An unpriviledged user could view the MySQL user list and manipulate the tabs displayed in phpMyAdmin for them.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability 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. Moreover, the configuration storage must be set up for the user groups feature.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.1.x (prior to 4.1.14.2) and 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.6) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.1.14.2 or newer, or 4.2.6 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Chirayu Chiripal for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2014-4987

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 395265e9937beb21134626c01a21f44b28e712e5

The following commits have been made on the 4.1 branch to fix this issue:

• 45550b8cff06ad128129020762f9b53d125a6934

More information

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