SB2016070506 - Information disclosure in Novell Opensuse
Published: July 5, 2016 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016070506
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5097)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2 places tokens in query strings and does not arrange for them to be stripped before external navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) HTTP requests or (2) server logs.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00043.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035978
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/11eb574242d2526107366d367ab5585fbe29578f
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/59e56bd63a5e023b797d82eb272cd074e3b4bfd1
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/5fc8020c5ba9cd2e38beb5dfe013faf2103cdf0f
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/8326aaebe54083d9726e153abdd303a141fe5ad3
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-14