PMASA-2016-19
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-19
Date: 2016-06-23
Summary
SQL injection attack
Description
A vulnerability was discovered that allows an SQL injection attack to run arbitrary commands as the control user.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be serious
Mitigation factor
This attack requires a controluser to exist and be configured in `config.inc.php`, therefore the attack can be mitigated by temporarily disabling the controluser.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.6.x (prior to 4.6.3) and 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.7) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Brian "geeknik" Carpenter for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-5703
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 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.