Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in phpMyAdmin, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "server_status.php", "libraries/common.inc.php", "libraries/common.lib.php", "libraries/display_change_password.lib.php", and "libraries/grab_globals.lib.php" scripts when processing the "PHP_SELF", "PATH_INFO", and "REQUEST_URI" variables, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.

Affected Products

phpMyAdmin versions prior to 2.11.1.2

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin version 2.11.1.2 :
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3535
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-6
http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/TDG-advisory071015a.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Omer Singer (The DigiTrust Group) and the vendor.

ChangeLog

2007-10-18 : Initial release

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