Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2562 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in PHPmyadmin

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
high complexity
phpmyadmin
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

The checkHTTP function in libraries/Config.class.php in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 does not verify X.509 certificates from api.github.com SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof these servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

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_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 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)