Cross-site request forgery in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2019-12922

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Cross-site request forgery in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2019-12922

Published: September 18, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21174
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12922
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as delete arbitrary server on in the Setup page.


Affected software

phpMyAdmin
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2019-12922

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.9.1-r0
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.9.1-1.fc29, 4.9.1-1.fc30, 4.9.1-1.fc31

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