Input validation error in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2011-2719

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

How to mitigate CVE-2011-2719

Sources

• 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