DOS vulnerabiltiy in table editing

PMASA-2017-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2017-3

Date: 2017-01-24

Summary

DOS vulnerabiltiy in table editing

Description

It was possible to trigger recursive include operation by crafter parameters when editing table data.

Severity

We consider this to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

Do not click on deep phpMyAdmin links on third party sites.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.6), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.10), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.19) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.6, 4.4.15.10, or 4.0.10.19 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2017-1000014

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 3d230b6

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

• 38f9223

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

• a134a01

More information

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