PMASA-2016-42
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-42
Date: 2016-07-15
Summary
SQL injection attack as control user
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in the user interface preference feature where a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
Mitigation factor
The server must have a control user account created in MySQL and configured in phpMyAdmin; installations without a control user are not vulnerable.
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, or 4.0.10.17 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-6619
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 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.