Possible code injection in setup script in case session variables are compromised.

PMASA-2011-6

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2011-6

Date: 2011-07-02

Summary

Possible code injection in setup script in case session variables are compromised.

Description

An unsanitized key from the Servers array is written in a comment of the generated config. An attacker can modify this key by modifying the SESSION superglobal array. This allows the attacker to close the comment and inject code.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Affected Versions

The 3.4.3 and earlier versions are affected.

Unaffected Versions

Branch 2.11.x is not affected by this.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.3.10.2 or 3.4.3.1 or apply the related patch listed below.

References

This issue was found by Frans Pehrson from Xxor AB. His advisory.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2011-2506

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-116

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 0fbedaf5fd7a771d0885c6b7385d934fc90d0d7f

The following commits have been made on the 3.3 branch to fix this issue:

• 2e01647949df937040e73a94ce0bac0daecbdcf4

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.