Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-1150 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in PHPmyadmin
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the export page (display_export.lib.php) in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.5 and 3.x before 3.1.3.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pma_db_filename_template cookie.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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.
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_PHPMYADMIN-090401.NASL description This update of phpMyAdmin fixes multiple vulnerabilities : - CVE-2009-1148: directory traversal - CVE-2009-1149: CRLF injection - CVE-2009-1150: cross-site scripting - CVE-2009-1151: static code injection last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40108 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40108 title openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-711) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update phpMyAdmin-711. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(40108); script_version("1.17"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:34"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1148", "CVE-2009-1149", "CVE-2009-1150", "CVE-2009-1151"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-711)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the phpMyAdmin-711 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update of phpMyAdmin fixes multiple vulnerabilities : - CVE-2009-1148: directory traversal - CVE-2009-1149: CRLF injection - CVE-2009-1150: cross-site scripting - CVE-2009-1151: static code injection" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490596" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"d2_elliot_name", value:"Phpmyadmin File Upload"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_d2_elliot", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'PhpMyAdmin Config File Code Injection'); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:'CANVAS'); script_cwe_id(20, 22, 79, 94); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpMyAdmin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2009/03/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/04/01"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.0", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.0", reference:"phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-0.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpMyAdmin"); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200906-03.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200906-03 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin: Greg Ose discovered that the setup script does not sanitize input properly, leading to the injection of arbitrary PHP code into the configuration file (CVE-2009-1151). Manuel Lopez Gallego and Santiago Rodriguez Collazo reported that data from cookies used in the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39570 published 2009-06-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39570 title GLSA-200906-03 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200906-03. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2019 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(39570); script_version("1.22"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:45"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1150", "CVE-2009-1151"); script_bugtraq_id(34251); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200906-03"); script_name(english:"GLSA-200906-03 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200906-03 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin: Greg Ose discovered that the setup script does not sanitize input properly, leading to the injection of arbitrary PHP code into the configuration file (CVE-2009-1151). Manuel Lopez Gallego and Santiago Rodriguez Collazo reported that data from cookies used in the 'Export' page is not properly sanitized (CVE-2009-1150). Impact : A remote unauthorized attacker could exploit the first vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running phpMyAdmin and conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks using the second vulnerability. 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NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1824.NASL description Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1150 Cross site scripting vulnerability in the export page allow for an attacker that can place crafted cookies with the user to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2009-1151 Static code injection allows for a remote attacker to inject arbitrary code into phpMyAdmin via the setup.php script. This script is in Debian under normal circumstances protected via Apache authentication. However, because of a recent worm based on this exploit, we are patching it regardless, to also protect installations that somehow still expose the setup.php script. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39569 published 2009-06-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39569 title Debian DSA-1824-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_PHPMYADMIN-6133.NASL description This update of phpMyAdmin fixes multiple vulnerabilities : - CVE-2009-1148: directory traversal - CVE-2009-1149: CRLF injection - CVE-2009-1150: cross-site scripting - CVE-2009-1151: static code injection last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 36081 published 2009-04-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36081 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-6133)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
- http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyAdmin/libraries/display_export.lib.php?r1=11986&r2=12302&pathrev=12302
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34430
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35585
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35635
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-03.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1824
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:115
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2009-2.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34251