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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2015.0497
A vulnerability has been identified in phpMyAdmin
5 March 2015
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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 Privileged Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Cross-site Request Forgery -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2015-2206
Original Bulletin:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2015-1.php
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PMASA-2015-1
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-1
Date: 2015-03-04
Summary
Risk of BREACH attack due to reflected parameter.
Description
With a large number of crafted requests it was possible to infer the CSRF
token by a BREACH attack.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.
Mitigation factor
This vulnerability can only be exploited in the presence of another
vulnerability that allows the attacker to inject JavaScript into victim's
browser.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.9), 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.13.2) and 4.3.x
(prior to 4.3.11.1) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.9 or newer, or 4.2.13.2 or newer, or 4.3.11.1 or
newer, or apply the patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Jian Jiang (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jian-jiang/3a/660/775) and
Xiaofeng Zheng (iliwoy@gmail.com) for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2015-2206
CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-352
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
b2f1e895038a5700bf8e81fb9a5da36cbdea0eeb
The following commits have been made on the 4.2 branch to fix this issue:
d0f109dfe3b345094d7ceb49df0dbb68efc032ed
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
e1a68ad02c5b1a516b3787ce114ef6a6be004630
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the
phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.
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