Insecure password generation in JavaScript.

PMASA-2016-4

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-4

Date: 2016-01-24

Summary

Insecure password generation in JavaScript.

Description

Password suggestion functionality uses Math.random() which does not provide cryptographically secure random numbers.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.13), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.13 or newer, 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-1927

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-338

Patches

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

• 6a96e67487f2faecb4de4204fee9b96b94020720
• 2369daa7f5f550797f560e6b46a021e4558c2d72

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

• 8b6737735be5787d0b98c6cdfe2c7e3131b1bc95
• 5530a72e162fab442218486a90ff3365c96fde98

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

• 8dedcc1a175eb07debd4fe116407c43694c60b22
• 912856b432d794201884c36e5f390d446339b6e4

More information

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