Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2561 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in PHPmyadmin

047910
CVSS 5.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
phpmyadmin
CWE-79
nessus
NVD
Published: 2016-03-01
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Phpmyadmin
37

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 familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-305.NASL
    descriptionThis update to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.4 fixes the following security issues : - CVE-2016-2560: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-11 boo#968938) - CVE-2016-2561: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-12 boo#968941)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-07
    plugin id89719
    published2016-03-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89719
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-305)
    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 openSUSE-2016-305.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(89719);
  script_version("2.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2560", "CVE-2016-2561");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-305)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2016-305 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.4 fixes the following security 
issues :

  - CVE-2016-2560: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
    (PMASA-2016-11 boo#968938)

  - CVE-2016-2561: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
    (PMASA-2016-12 boo#968941)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968938"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968941"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");

  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:13.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/03/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/07");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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 !~ "^(SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);



flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.5-52.1") ) 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_2016-02EE5B4002.NASL
    descriptionphpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29) =============================== This release fixes multiple XSS vulnerabilities, please see PMASA-2016-10, PMASA-2016-11, and PMASA-2016-12 for details; additionally it fixes a vulnerability allowing man- in-the-middle attack on an API call to GitHub, see PMASA-2016-13 for details. It also inclues fixes for the following bugs: - issue #11971 CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index type is not recognized by parser. - issue #11982 Row count wrong when grouping joined tables. - issue #12012 Column definition with default value and comment in CREATE TABLE exported faulty. - issue #12020 New statement but no delimiter and unexpected token with REPLACE. - issue #12029 Fixed incorrect usage of SQL parser context in SQL export - issue #12048 Fixed inclusion of gettext library from SQL parser 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-14
    plugin id89879
    published2016-03-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89879
    titleFedora 22 : php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc22 / phpMyAdmin-4.5.5.1-1.fc22 (2016-02ee5b4002)
    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 2016-02ee5b4002.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(89879);
  script_version("2.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2559", "CVE-2016-2560", "CVE-2016-2561", "CVE-2016-2562");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-02ee5b4002");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc22 / phpMyAdmin-4.5.5.1-1.fc22 (2016-02ee5b4002)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"phpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29) =============================== This
release fixes multiple XSS vulnerabilities, please see PMASA-2016-10,
PMASA-2016-11, and PMASA-2016-12 for details; additionally it fixes a
vulnerability allowing man- in-the-middle attack on an API call to
GitHub, see PMASA-2016-13 for details. It also inclues fixes for the
following bugs: - issue #11971 CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index type is not
recognized by parser. - issue #11982 Row count wrong when grouping
joined tables. - issue #12012 Column definition with default value and
comment in CREATE TABLE exported faulty. - issue #12020 New statement
but no delimiter and unexpected token with REPLACE. - issue #12029
Fixed incorrect usage of SQL parser context in SQL export - issue
#12048 Fixed inclusion of gettext library from SQL parser

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."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310918"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313225"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313698"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e93060f2"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178872.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ce4a66fe"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected php-udan11-sql-parser and / or phpMyAdmin
packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-udan11-sql-parser");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpMyAdmin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/03/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/14");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22.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:"FC22", reference:"php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc22")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.5.5.1-1.fc22")) 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, "php-udan11-sql-parser / phpMyAdmin");
}
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-304.NASL
    descriptionThis update to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.4 fixes the following security issues : - CVE-2016-2560: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-11 boo#968938) - CVE-2016-2561: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-12 boo#968941)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-07
    plugin id89718
    published2016-03-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89718
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-304)
    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 openSUSE-2016-304.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(89718);
  script_version("2.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2560", "CVE-2016-2561");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-304)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2016-304 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.4 fixes the following security 
issues :

  - CVE-2016-2560: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
    (PMASA-2016-11 boo#968938)

  - CVE-2016-2561: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
    (PMASA-2016-12 boo#968941)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968938"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968941"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");

  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:13.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/03/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/07");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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 !~ "^(SUSE13\.2|SUSE42\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.2 / 42.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);



flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.5-30.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.5-16.1") ) 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 familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3627.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web-based MySQL administration interface. - CVE-2016-1927 The suggestPassword function relied on a non-secure random number generator which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess generated passwords via a brute-force approach. - CVE-2016-2039 CSRF token values were generated by a non-secure random number generator, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by predicting a value. - CVE-2016-2040 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-2041 phpMyAdmin does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by measuring time differences. - CVE-2016-2560 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-2561 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-5099 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-5701 For installations running on plain HTTP, phpMyAdmin allows remote attackers to conduct BBCode injection attacks against HTTP sessions via a crafted URI. - CVE-2016-5705 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-5706 phpMyAdmin allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large array in the scripts parameter. - CVE-2016-5731 A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-5733 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. - CVE-2016-5739 A specially crafted Transformation could leak information which a remote attacker could use to perform cross site request forgeries.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id92527
    published2016-07-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92527
    titleDebian DSA-3627-1 : phpmyadmin - security update
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3627. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(92527);
  script_version("2.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/07/15 14:20:30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1927", "CVE-2016-2039", "CVE-2016-2040", "CVE-2016-2041", "CVE-2016-2560", "CVE-2016-2561", "CVE-2016-5099", "CVE-2016-5701", "CVE-2016-5705", "CVE-2016-5706", "CVE-2016-5731", "CVE-2016-5733", "CVE-2016-5739");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3627");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3627-1 : phpmyadmin - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web-based
MySQL administration interface.

  - CVE-2016-1927
    The suggestPassword function relied on a non-secure
    random number generator which makes it easier for remote
    attackers to guess generated passwords via a brute-force
    approach.

  - CVE-2016-2039
    CSRF token values were generated by a non-secure random
    number generator, which allows remote attackers to
    bypass intended access restrictions by predicting a
    value.

  - CVE-2016-2040
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web
    script or HTML.

  - CVE-2016-2041
    phpMyAdmin does not use a constant-time algorithm for
    comparing CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote
    attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by
    measuring time differences.

  - CVE-2016-2560
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
    HTML.

  - CVE-2016-2561
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
    HTML.

  - CVE-2016-5099
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
    HTML.

  - CVE-2016-5701
    For installations running on plain HTTP, phpMyAdmin
    allows remote attackers to conduct BBCode injection
    attacks against HTTP sessions via a crafted URI.

  - CVE-2016-5705
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
    HTML.

  - CVE-2016-5706
    phpMyAdmin allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service (resource consumption) via a large array in the
    scripts parameter.

  - CVE-2016-5731
    A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows remote
    attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

  - CVE-2016-5733
    Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
    HTML.

  - CVE-2016-5739
    A specially crafted Transformation could leak
    information which a remote attacker could use to perform
    cross site request forgeries."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1927"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2039"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2040"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2041"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2560"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2561"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5099"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5701"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5705"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5706"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5731"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5733"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5739"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/phpmyadmin"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the phpmyadmin packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/02/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/07/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/07/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"phpmyadmin", reference:"4:4.2.12-2+deb8u2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_F682A506DF7C11E581E46805CA0B3D42.NASL
    descriptionThe phpMyAdmin development team reports : XSS vulnerability in SQL parser. Using a crafted SQL query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack through the SQL query page. We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical. Multiple XSS vulnerabilities. By sending a specially crafted URL as part of the HOST header, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack. A weakness was found that allows an XSS attack with Internet Explorer versions older than 8 and Safari on Windows using a specially crafted URL. Using a crafted SQL query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack through the SQL query page. Using a crafted parameter value, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in user accounts page. Using a crafted parameter value, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in zoom search page. We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical. Multiple XSS vulnerabilities. With a crafted table/column name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database normalization page. With a crafted parameter it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database structure page. With a crafted parameter it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in central columns page. We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical. Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API call to GitHub. A vulnerability in the API call to GitHub can be exploited to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id89049
    published2016-03-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89049
    titleFreeBSD : phpmyadmin -- multiple XSS and a man-in-the-middle vulnerability (f682a506-df7c-11e5-81e4-6805ca0b3d42)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-65DA02B95C.NASL
    descriptionphpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29) =============================== This release fixes multiple XSS vulnerabilities, please see PMASA-2016-10, PMASA-2016-11, and PMASA-2016-12 for details; additionally it fixes a vulnerability allowing man- in-the-middle attack on an API call to GitHub, see PMASA-2016-13 for details. It also inclues fixes for the following bugs: - issue #11971 CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index type is not recognized by parser. - issue #11982 Row count wrong when grouping joined tables. - issue #12012 Column definition with default value and comment in CREATE TABLE exported faulty. - issue #12020 New statement but no delimiter and unexpected token with REPLACE. - issue #12029 Fixed incorrect usage of SQL parser context in SQL export - issue #12048 Fixed inclusion of gettext library from SQL parser 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-10
    plugin id89801
    published2016-03-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89801
    titleFedora 23 : php-udan11-sql-parser-3.4.0-1.fc23 / phpMyAdmin-4.5.5.1-1.fc23 (2016-65da02b95c)

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