Input validation error in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2011-2719
Published: August 1, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44864
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2719
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
libraries/auth/swekey/swekey.auth.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.2 does not properly manage sessions associated with Swekey authentication, which allows remote attackers to modify the SESSION superglobal array, other superglobal arrays, and certain swekey.auth.lib.php local variables via a crafted query string, a related issue to CVE-2011-2505.
Affected software
phpMyAdmin
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
How to mitigate CVE-2011-2719
Install update from vendor's website.
phpMyAdmin - update to 3.4.3.2-1.el6
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063410.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063418.html
- http://osvdb.org/74112
- http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin;a=commit;h=571cdc6ff4bf375871b594f4e06f8ad3159d1754
- http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin;a=commit;h=e7bb42c002885c2aca7aba4d431b8c63ae4de9b7
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jul/300
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45315
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45365
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45515
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8322
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2286
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:124
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/25/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/26/10
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-12.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/518967/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519155/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48874
- http://www.xxor.se/advisories/phpMyAdmin_3.x_Conditional_Session_Manipulation.txt
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725384
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68769