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

CSH
CYBERSECURITY HELP
Sign In REGISTER
 
Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU21174

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

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 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1, 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.9.1-1.fc29, 4.9.1-1.fc30, 4.9.1-1.fc31

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

External References

Related Security Bulletins