Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-6606 - Information Exposure vulnerability in PHPmyadmin
Summary
An issue was discovered in cookie encryption in phpMyAdmin. The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. This can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password. Furthermore, the same initialization vector (IV) is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same - but the attacker can not directly decode these values from the cookie as it is still hashed. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-626.NASL description Phpmyadmin, a web administration tool for MySQL, had several vulnerabilities reported. CVE-2016-6606 A pair of vulnerabilities were found affecting the way cookies are stored. The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. The can allow an attacker who has access to a user last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-09-19 plugin id 93566 published 2016-09-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93566 title Debian DLA-626-1 : phpmyadmin security update code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-626-1. 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The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. The can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password. A vulnerability was found where the same initialization vector is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same — but the attacker can not directly decode these values from the cookie as it is still hashed. CVE-2016-6607 Cross site scripting vulnerability in the replication feature CVE-2016-6609 A specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature. CVE-2016-6611 A specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger a SQL injection attack through the SQL export functionality. CVE-2016-6612 A user can exploit the LOAD LOCAL INFILE functionality to expose files on the server to the database system. CVE-2016-6613 A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user. CVE-2016-6614 A vulnerability was reported with the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. CVE-2016-6620 A vulnerability was reported where some data is passed to the PHP unserialize() function without verification that it's valid serialized data. Due to how the PHP function operates, unserialization can result in code being loaded and executed due to object instantiation and autoloading, and a malicious user may be able to exploit this. Therefore, a malicious user may be able to manipulate the stored data in a way to exploit this weakness. CVE-2016-6622 An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial of service attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true;. CVE-2016-6623 A malicious authorized user can cause a denial of service attack on a server by passing large values to a loop. CVE-2016-6624 A vulnerability was discovered where, under certain circumstances, it may be possible to circumvent the phpMyAdmin IP-based authentication rules. When phpMyAdmin is used with IPv6 in a proxy server environment, and the proxy server is in the allowed range but the attacking computer is not allowed, this vulnerability can allow the attacking computer to connect despite the IP rules. CVE-2016-6630 An authenticated user can trigger a denial of service attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. CVE-2016-6631 A vulnerability was discovered where a user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by shell scripts. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.11.1-2+deb7u6. We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. 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NASL family CGI abuses NASL id PHPMYADMIN_PMASA_2016_29.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.0.x prior to 4.0.10.17, 4.4.x prior to 4.4.15.8, or 4.6.x prior to 4.6.4. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to the use of an algorithm that is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to decrypt information without the key, resulting in the disclosure of usernames and passwords. (CVE-2016-6606) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the replication_gui.lib.php script due to improper validation of user-supplied input to the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 95027 published 2016-11-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95027 title phpMyAdmin 4.0.x < 4.0.10.17 / 4.4.x < 4.4.15.8 / 4.6.x < 4.6.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-29 - PMASA-2016-56) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1821.NASL description Multiple security vulnerabilities were fixed in phpmyadmin, a MySQL web administration tool, which prevent possible SQL injection attacks, CSRF, the bypass of user restrictions, information disclosure or denial of service. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125957 published 2019-06-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125957 title Debian DLA-1821-1 : phpmyadmin security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-1021.NASL description phpMyAdmin was updated to version 4.4.15.8 (2016-08-16) to fix the following issues : - Upstream changelog for 4.4.15.8 : - Improve session cookie code for openid.php and signon.php example files - Full path disclosure in openid.php and signon.php example files - Unsafe generation of BlowfishSecret (when not supplied by the user) - Referrer leak when phpinfo is enabled - Use HTTPS for wiki links - Improve SSL certificate handling - Fix full path disclosure in debugging code - Administrators could trigger SQL injection attack against users - other fixes - Remove Swekey support - Security fixes: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/ - Weaknesses with cookie encryption see PMASA-2016-29 (CVE-2016-6606, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-30 (CVE-2016-6607, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-31 (CVE-2016-6608, CWE-661) - PHP code injection see PMASA-2016-32 (CVE-2016-6609, CWE-661) - Full path disclosure see PMASA-2016-33 (CVE-2016-6610, CWE-661) - SQL injection attack see PMASA-2016-34 (CVE-2016-6611, CWE-661) - Local file exposure through LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE see PMASA-2016-35 (CVE-2016-6612, CWE-661) - Local file exposure through symlinks with UploadDir see PMASA-2016-36 (CVE-2016-6613, CWE-661) - Path traversal with SaveDir and UploadDir see PMASA-2016-37 (CVE-2016-6614, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-38 (CVE-2016-6615, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability as control user see PMASA-2016-39 (CVE-2016-6616, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability see PMASA-2016-40 (CVE-2016-6617, CWE-661) - Denial-of-service attack through transformation feature see PMASA-2016-41 (CVE-2016-6618, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability as control user see PMASA-2016-42 (CVE-2016-6619, CWE-661) - Verify data before unserializing see PMASA-2016-43 (CVE-2016-6620, CWE-661) - SSRF in setup script see PMASA-2016-44 (CVE-2016-6621, CWE-661) - Denial-of-service attack with $cfg[ last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-08-30 plugin id 93212 published 2016-08-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93212 title openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-1021) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_EF70B201645D11E69CDC6805CA0B3D42.NASL description The phpmyadmin development team reports : Weakness with cookie encryption Multiple XSS vulnerabilities Multiple XSS vulnerabilities PHP code injection Full path disclosure SQL injection attack Local file exposure Local file exposure through symlinks with UploadDir Path traversal with SaveDir and UploadDir Multiple XSS vulnerabilities SQL injection attack SQL injection attack Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature SQL injection attack as control user Unvalidated data passed to unserialize() DOS attack with forced persistent connections Denial of service (DOS) attack by for loops IPv6 and proxy server IP-based authentication rule circumvention Detect if user is logged in Bypass URL redirect protection Referrer leak in url.php Reflected File Download attack ArbitraryServerRegexp bypass Denial of service (DOS) attack by changing password to a very long string Remote code execution vulnerability when run as CGI Summary Denial of service (DOS) attack with dbase extension Remote code execution vulnerability when PHP is running with dbase extension last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93024 published 2016-08-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93024 title FreeBSD : phpmyadmin -- multiple vulnerabilities (ef70b201-645d-11e6-9cdc-6805ca0b3d42) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201701-32.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-32 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A authenticated remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary PHP Code, inject SQL code, or to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks. In certain configurations, an unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96426 published 2017-01-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96426 title GLSA-201701-32 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-1027.NASL description This phpMyAdmin update to version 4.4.15.8 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - Improve session cookie code for openid.php and signon.php example files - Full path disclosure in openid.php and signon.php example files - Unsafe generation of BlowfishSecret (when not supplied by the user) - Referrer leak when phpinfo is enabled - Use HTTPS for wiki links - Improve SSL certificate handling - Fix full path disclosure in debugging code - Administrators could trigger SQL injection attack against users - Weaknesses with cookie encryption see PMASA-2016-29 (CVE-2016-6606, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-30 (CVE-2016-6607, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-31 (CVE-2016-6608, CWE-661) - PHP code injection see PMASA-2016-32 (CVE-2016-6609, CWE-661) - Full path disclosure see PMASA-2016-33 (CVE-2016-6610, CWE-661) - SQL injection attack see PMASA-2016-34 (CVE-2016-6611, CWE-661) - Local file exposure through LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE see PMASA-2016-35 (CVE-2016-6612, CWE-661) - Local file exposure through symlinks with UploadDir see PMASA-2016-36 (CVE-2016-6613, CWE-661) - Path traversal with SaveDir and UploadDir see PMASA-2016-37 (CVE-2016-6614, CWE-661) - Multiple XSS vulnerabilities see PMASA-2016-38 (CVE-2016-6615, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability as control user see PMASA-2016-39 (CVE-2016-6616, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability see PMASA-2016-40 (CVE-2016-6617, CWE-661) - Denial-of-service attack through transformation feature see PMASA-2016-41 (CVE-2016-6618, CWE-661) - SQL injection vulnerability as control user see PMASA-2016-42 (CVE-2016-6619, CWE-661) - Verify data before unserializing see PMASA-2016-43 (CVE-2016-6620, CWE-661) - SSRF in setup script see PMASA-2016-44 (CVE-2016-6621, CWE-661) - Denial-of-service attack with $cfg[ last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-08-30 plugin id 93214 published 2016-08-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93214 title openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-1027)