Reflected File Download attack

PMASA-2016-51

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-51

Date: 2016-07-24

Summary

Reflected File Download attack

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker may be able to trigger a user to download a specially crafted malicious SVG file.

Severity

We consider this issue 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-2016-6628

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• f261abb

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

• a553a11

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

• 623f5b4

More information

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