Bypass URL redirect protection

PMASA-2016-49

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-49

Date: 2016-07-24

Summary

Bypass URL redirect protection

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker could redirect a user to a malicious web page.

Severity

We consider this 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-2016-6626

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 67d6eea

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

• 88c72dc

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

• e8c5cab

More information

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