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PMASA-2016-66

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-66

Date: 2016-11-25

Updated: 2016-12-06

Summary

Bypass white-list protection for URL redirection

Description

Due to the limitation in URL matching, it was possible to bypass the URL white-list protection.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5, 4.4.15.9, 4.0.10.18, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-9861

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-20 CWE-601

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 team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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