SQL injection relating to data display

PMASA-2020-4

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2020-4

Date: 2020-03-20

Updated: 2020-03-22

Summary

SQL injection relating to data display

Description

An SQL injection vulnerability was discovered where malicious code could be used to trigger an XSS attack through retrieving and displaying results.

The attack requires an attacker be able to insert specially-crafted data in to certain database tables, which when retrieved (for instance, through the Browse tab) can trigger the XSS attack.

Severity

We consider this flaw to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

phpMyAdmin 4.9.x releases prior to 4.9.5 and the 5.0.x releases prior to 5.0.2 are affected. We believe the flaw was introduced with phpMyAdmin 3.4.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.9.5 or 5.0.2 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Yutaka WATANABE for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2020-10803

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 2489837213b90664aceebe4c9ac641bf167b8a97
• 46a7aa7cd4ff2be0eeb23721fbf71567bebe69a5
• 6b9b2601d8af916659cde8aefd3a6eaadd10284a

More information

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