SB2014113001 - Multiple vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin
Published: November 30, 2014 Updated: August 9, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8960)
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in libraries/error_report.lib.php in the error-reporting feature in phpMyAdmin 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7 and 4.2.x before 4.2.12. A remote authenticated attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8958)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via a crafted (1) database, (2) table, or (3) column name that is improperly handled during rendering of the table browse page; a crafted ENUM value that is improperly handled during rendering of the (4) table print view or (5) zoom search page; or (6) a crafted pma_fontsize cookie that is improperly handled during rendering of the home page. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00017.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:228
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-15.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71244
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/9364e2eee5681681caf7205c0933bc18af11e233
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3382
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-13.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71243
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/1bc04ec95038f2356ad33752090001bf1c047208
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/2a3b7393d1d5a8ba0543699df94a08a0f5728fe0
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/2ffdbf2d7daa0b92541d8b754e2afac555d3ed21
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/d32da348c4de2379482a48661ce968a55eebe5c4