phpMyAdmin: Provide Misleading Information -- Remote with User Interaction

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2015.2691
         Content spoofing vulnerability in phpMyAdmin PMASA-2015-5
                              26 October 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:     Provide Misleading Information -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade

Original Bulletin: 
   https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-5/

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PMASA-2015-5

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-5

Date: 2015-10-23

Summary

Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to an external site

Description

This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a content spoofing attack 
using the phpMyAdmin's redirection mechanism to external sites.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since the spoofed content is
escaped and no HTML injection is possible.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.1) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.1 or newer, or 4.5.1 or newer or apply patch 
listed below.

References

Thanks to Lalith Rallabhandi for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: 2015-7873

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-20

Patches

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

    2b31866fe0b30b867aaf5b5fedb11adb354e037f

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

    cd097656758f981f80fb9029c7d6b4294582b706

More information

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

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