Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-2719 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in PHPmyadmin

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
phpmyadmin
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2011-08-01
Updated: 2023-02-13

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Phpmyadmin
50

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • 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.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-9734.NASL
    descriptionChanges for 3.4.3.2 (2011-07-23) - [PMASA-2011-9] XSS in table Print view (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011 -9.php) - [PMASA-2011-10] Local file inclusion via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-10.php) - [PMASA-2011-11] Local file inclusion vulnerability and code execution (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-11.php) - [PMASA-2011-12] Possible superglobal and local variables manipulation in swekey authentication (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-12.php) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id55767
    published2011-08-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55767
    titleFedora 15 : phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc15 (2011-9734)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2011-9734.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(55767);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:36");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2642", "CVE-2011-2643", "CVE-2011-2718", "CVE-2011-2719");
  script_bugtraq_id(48874);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2011-9734");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 15 : phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc15 (2011-9734)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Changes for 3.4.3.2 (2011-07-23)

  - [PMASA-2011-9] XSS in table Print view
    (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011
    -9.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-10] Local file inclusion via a crafted
      MIME-type transformation parameter
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-10.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-11] Local file inclusion vulnerability and
      code execution
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-11.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-12] Possible superglobal and local
      variables manipulation in swekey authentication
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-12.php)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-10.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-10/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-11.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-11/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-12.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-12/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-9.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-9/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725381"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725382"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725383"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725384"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063418.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d9007c3f"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpMyAdmin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/07/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/08/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^15([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 15.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC15", reference:"phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc15")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpMyAdmin");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-9725.NASL
    descriptionChanges for 3.4.3.2 (2011-07-23) - [PMASA-2011-9] XSS in table Print view (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011 -9.php) - [PMASA-2011-10] Local file inclusion via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-10.php) - [PMASA-2011-11] Local file inclusion vulnerability and code execution (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-11.php) - [PMASA-2011-12] Possible superglobal and local variables manipulation in swekey authentication (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20 11-12.php) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id55766
    published2011-08-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55766
    titleFedora 14 : phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc14 (2011-9725)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2011-9725.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(55766);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:36");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2642", "CVE-2011-2643", "CVE-2011-2718", "CVE-2011-2719");
  script_bugtraq_id(48874);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2011-9725");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 14 : phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc14 (2011-9725)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Changes for 3.4.3.2 (2011-07-23)

  - [PMASA-2011-9] XSS in table Print view
    (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011
    -9.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-10] Local file inclusion via a crafted
      MIME-type transformation parameter
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-10.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-11] Local file inclusion vulnerability and
      code execution
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-11.php)

    - [PMASA-2011-12] Possible superglobal and local
      variables manipulation in swekey authentication
      (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-20
      11-12.php)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-10.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-10/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-11.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-11/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-12.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-12/"
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-9.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2011-9/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725381"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725382"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725383"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725384"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063410.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?834d5e4b"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpMyAdmin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/07/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/08/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^14([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 14.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC14", reference:"phpMyAdmin-3.4.3.2-1.fc14")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "phpMyAdmin");
}
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201201-01.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201201-01 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers and phpMyAdmin Security Advisories referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers might be able to insert and execute PHP code, include and execute local PHP files, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks via various vectors. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id57433
    published2012-01-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57433
    titleGLSA-201201-01 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

References