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
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.2 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.