SQL injection in Designer feature

PMASA-2019-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2019-3

Date: 2019-05-06

Summary

SQL injection in Designer feature

Description

A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted database name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the designer feature.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious

Affected Versions

phpMyAdmin versions prior to 4.8.6 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.8.6 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to phpMyAdmin team member William Desportes for finding this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2019-11768

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.8 branch to fix this issue:

• c1ecafc38319e8f768c9259d4d580e42acd5ee86

More information

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