PHP code injection

PMASA-2016-32

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-32

Date: 2016-07-12

Summary

PHP code injection

Description

A vulnerability was found where a specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, or 4.0.10.17 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6609

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• a82835c

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

• 6b310f0

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

• 34a1ceb

More information

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