Stored cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2020-10803

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Stored cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2020-10803

Published: March 21, 2020 / Updated: March 23, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU26290
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10803
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of table names. A remote user can create a specially crafted tablename, trick the victim to retrieve data from the malicious table and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2020-10803

Install updates from vendor's website.

phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.9.5, 5.0.2
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 4.9.5-r0, 5.0.2-r0
phpmyadmin (Ubuntu package) - update to 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.9.5-1.fc30, 5.0.2-1.fc31, 5.0.2-2.fc32

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