SB2016101809 - OS Command Injection in phpmyadmin (Alpine package)

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6631)

CWE-ID: CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e3226bf79b872494874e7f139d2c88c069c4d60f
• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=abae6704b5ad5fa0ac123378e37f2b81d2585ff0