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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2012.0988
Man-in-the-middle vulnerability discovered in phpMyAdmin
15 October 2012
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: phpMyAdmin
Publisher: phpMyAdmin
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2012-5368
Original Bulletin:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2012-7.php
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PMASA-2012-7
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2012-7
Date: 2012-10-12
Summary
Fetching the version information from a non-SSL site is vulnerable to a MITM
attack.
Description
To display information about the current phpMyAdmin version on the main page, a
piece of JavaScript is fetched from the phpmyadmin.net website in non-SSL mode.
A man-in-the-middle could modify this script on the wire to cause mischief.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.
Affected Versions
Versions 3.5.x before 3.5.3 are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.5.3 or newer or apply the patches listed below. The fix
involves fetching a JSON file rather than a JavaScript file.
References
Thanks to Mike Cardwell for reporting this issue and suggesting workarounds.
Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2012-5368
CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-300
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
50edafc0884aa15d0a1aa178089ac6a1ad2eb18a
a547f3d3e2cf36c6a904fa3e053fd8bddd3fbbb0
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin
team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.
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