SQL injection attack

PMASA-2016-40

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-40

Date: 2016-07-14

Summary

SQL injection attack

Description

A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export functionality.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 or newer, or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6617

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• ceeef53

More information

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