Unsafe generation of XSRF/CSRF token.

PMASA-2016-2

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-2

Date: 2016-01-24

Summary

Unsafe generation of XSRF/CSRF token.

Description

The XSRF/CSRF token is generated with a weak algorithm using functions that do not return cryptographically secure values.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.13), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.13 or newer, 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-2039

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-338

Patches

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

• 6fe54dfa000dd6f43f237e859781fad7111ac1bd

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 91638c04d1f2c3977560a5b9db3ac3879a38691b
• 13384f7f47dadb02cfe950af0413c7d3e136df8e

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

• f20970d32c3dfdf82aef7b6c244da1f769043813
• cb7748ac9cffcd1cd0f3081499cd4aafa9d1065e

More information

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