Remote code execution vulnerability when PHP is running with dbase extension

PMASA-2016-56

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-56

Date: 2016-07-25

Summary

Remote code execution vulnerability when PHP is running with dbase extension

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where phpMyAdmin can be used to trigger a remote code execution attack against certain PHP installations.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability only exists when PHP is running with the dbase extension, which is not shipped by default, not available in most Linux distributions, and doesn’t compile with PHP7.

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, 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-2016-6633

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 378c382

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

• f80a250

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

• ddeab2a

More information

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