XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

PMASA-2017-9

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2017-9

Date: 2017-12-20

Updated: 2018-01-03

Summary

XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

Description

By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to perform harmful database operations such as deleting records, dropping/truncating tables etc.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be critical.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.7.x (prior to 4.7.7) are affected.

Unaffected Versions

Versions older than 4.7.0 are not affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.7.7 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Ashutosh Barot for reporting the vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2017-1000499

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-352

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.7 branch to fix this issue:

• edd929216ade9f7c150a262ba3db44db0fed0e1b

The following commits have been made on the 4.8 branch to fix this issue:

• 72f109a99c82b14c07dcb19946ba9b76efc32a1b

More information

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