BBCode injection vulnerability

PMASA-2016-17

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-17

Date: 2016-06-23

Summary

BBCode injection vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability was discovered that allows an BBCode injection to setup script in case it’s not accessed on https.

Severity

We consider this to be non-critical.

Mitigation factor

Always use https to access phpMyAdmin.

Affected Versions

Version 4.6.x (prior to 4.6.3), 4.4.15.x (prior to 4.4.15.7), and 4.0.10.x (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7, or 4.0.10.16 or newer, or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-5701

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• bf7379771f4b32e01f4af3b36f8ec6900288688e

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 1dca386505f396f0c2035112a403cc80768a141f

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• 5633b1d57b23ddaa5a9a976a323c90c18d9be03d

More information

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