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PMASA-2016-13

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-13

Date: 2016-02-25

Summary

Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API call to GitHub.

Description

A vulnerability in the API call to GitHub can be exploited to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.5.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-2562

CWE IDs: CWE-661 CWE-295

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 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.

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