phpinfo information leak value of sensitive (HttpOnly) cookies

PMASA-2016-59

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-59

Date: 2016-11-25

Updated: 2016-12-06

Summary

phpinfo information leak value of sensitive (HttpOnly) cookies

Description

phpinfo (phpinfo.php) shows PHP information including values of HttpOnly cookies.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

Mitigation factor

phpinfo in disabled by default and needs to be enabled explicitly.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5, 4.4.15.9, 4.0.10.18.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-9848

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• eec14404a738b1259ee7dfc4fbdf17b47e497f1d

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

• 61591c4438ff1ab25c0d5a5fb3f0f363a627fe2c

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

• e67e69229a1df3a26df12b1bae89065834fd85b4

More information

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