Cross-site request forgery in phpmyadmin (Alpine package)

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU16499

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19969

CWE-ID: CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to insufficient CSRF protections. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, gain access to the system and perform arbitrary actions.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform harmful SQL operations such as renaming databases, creating new tables/routines, deleting designer pages, adding/deleting users, updating user passwords, killing SQL processes, etc.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

phpmyadmin (Alpine package): 4.7.0-r0 - 4.8.4-r0

External links

http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7bbc0dad2f8260a50fa078b831a3b1a46024aaac
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=70ea79c1c7c3e2187967fb04101d410b1d749390
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=327df2ce21328db30da75277c323014af26c0b5c

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.