Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API call to GitHub.

PMASA-2015-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-3

Date: 2015-05-13

Summary

Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API call to GitHub.

Description

A vulnerability in the API call to GitHub can be exploited to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.10), 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.13.3), 4.3.x (prior to 4.3.13.1) and 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.6.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.10 or newer, or 4.2.13.3 or newer, or 4.3.13.1 or newer, or 4.4.6.1 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Maksymilian Arciemowicz of <http://cxsecurity.com> for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2015-3903

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-295

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 5ebc4daf131dd3bd646326267f3e765d0249bbb4

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• e97e7fb0ea2dedfaa95c7dbe872027fb4bd4204c

The following commits have been made on the 4.2 branch to fix this issue:

• 0e18931d9e4b23053285b6fddf3493ca426ff684

The following commits have been made on the 4.3 branch to fix this issue:

• 75499e790429c491840a0ad31d4de84aca215d23

More information

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