PMASA-2008-5

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2008-5

Date: 2008-07-15

Updated: 2008-07-16

Summary

XSRF/CSRF for creating a database and modifying user charset

Description

We received an advisory from Aung Khant (YGN Ethical Hacker Group), and we wish to thank him for his work. A logged-in user, if abused into clicking a crafted link or loading an attack page, would create a database he did not intend to, or would change his connection character set.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Versions before 2.11.7.1.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.11.7.1 or newer.

References

These advisories are available from the reporter:
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_CreateDB_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_ConvertCharset_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2008-3197

Patches

Revisions 11389 and 11391 were applied on the MAINT_2_11_7 branch:
Revision 11389
Revision 11391

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is http://www.phpmyadmin.net.