Referrer leak in url.php

PMASA-2016-50

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-50

Date: 2016-07-24

Summary

Referrer leak in url.php

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker can determine the phpMyAdmin host location through the file url.php.

Severity

We consider this to be of moderate severity.

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-2016-6627

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 67b538e

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

• 5c9f25d

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

• 85e1d6e

More information

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