Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6942 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
phpmyadmin
debian
CWE-79
nessus
exploit available

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PhpMyAdmin before 2.9.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) a comment for a table name, as exploited through (a) db_operations.php, (2) the db parameter to (b) db_create.php, (3) the newname parameter to db_operations.php, the (4) query_history_latest, (5) query_history_latest_db, and (6) querydisplay_tab parameters to (c) querywindow.php, and (7) the pos parameter to (d) sql.php.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Phpmyadmin
56
OS
Debian
2

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionPhpMyAdmin 2.x db_create.php db Parameter XSS. CVE-2006-6942. Webapps exploit for php platform
    idEDB-ID:29058
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2006-09-15
    published2006-09-15
    reporterlaurent gaffie
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/29058/
    titlePhpMyAdmin 2.x db_create.php db Parameter XSS
  • descriptionPhpMyAdmin 2.x querywindow.php Multiple Parameter XSS. CVE-2006-6942. Webapps exploit for php platform
    idEDB-ID:29060
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2006-09-15
    published2006-09-15
    reporterlaurent gaffie
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/29060/
    titlePhpMyAdmin 2.x querywindow.php Multiple Parameter XSS
  • descriptionPhpMyAdmin 2.x sql.php pos Parameter XSS. CVE-2006-6942. Webapps exploit for php platform
    idEDB-ID:29061
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2006-09-15
    published2006-09-15
    reporterlaurent gaffie
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/29061/
    titlePhpMyAdmin 2.x sql.php pos Parameter XSS
  • descriptionPhpMyAdmin 2.x db_operations.php Multiple Parameter XSS. CVE-2006-6942. Webapps exploit for php platform
    idEDB-ID:29059
    last seen2016-02-03
    modified2006-09-15
    published2006-09-15
    reporterlaurent gaffie
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/29059/
    titlePhpMyAdmin 2.x db_operations.php Multiple Parameter XSS

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200903-32.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200903-32 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin: libraries/database_interface.lib.php in phpMyAdmin allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a request to server_databases.php with a sort_by parameter containing PHP sequences, which are processed by create_function (CVE-2008-4096). Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in pmd_pdf.php allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the db parameter, a different vector than CVE-2006-6942 and CVE-2007-5977 (CVE-2008-4775). Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin allows remote authenticated attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via a link or IMG tag to tbl_structure.php with a modified table parameter. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct SQL injection attacks and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-5621). Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin allow remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks via unknown vectors related to the table parameter, a different vector than CVE-2008-5621 (CVE-2008-5622). Impact : A remote attacker may execute arbitrary code with the rights of the webserver, inject and execute SQL with the rights of phpMyAdmin or conduct XSS attacks against other users. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35964
    published2009-03-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35964
    titleGLSA-200903-32 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1370.NASL
    descriptionSeveral remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a program to administrate MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-1325 The PMA_ArrayWalkRecursive function in libraries/common.lib.php does not limit recursion on arrays provided by users, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (web server crash) via an array with many dimensions. This issue affects only the stable distribution (Etch). - CVE-2007-1395 Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in index.php allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by injecting arbitrary JavaScript or HTML in a (1) db or (2) table parameter value followed by an uppercase </SCRIPT> end tag, which bypasses the protection against lowercase </script>. This issue affects only the stable distribution (Etch). - CVE-2007-2245 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the fieldkey parameter to browse_foreigners.php or (2) certain input to the PMA_sanitize function. - CVE-2006-6942 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) a comment for a table name, as exploited through (a) db_operations.php, (2) the db parameter to (b) db_create.php, (3) the newname parameter to db_operations.php, the (4) query_history_latest, (5) query_history_latest_db, and (6) querydisplay_tab parameters to (c) querywindow.php, and (7) the pos parameter to (d) sql.php. This issue affects only the oldstable distribution (Sarge). - CVE-2006-6944 phpMyAdmin allows remote attackers to bypass Allow/Deny access rules that use IP addresses via false headers. This issue affects only the oldstable distribution (Sarge).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id26031
    published2007-09-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/26031
    titleDebian DSA-1370-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities