Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-6611 - SQL Injection vulnerability in PHPmyadmin
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export functionality. 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)
- 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.
- Object Relational Mapping Injection An attacker leverages a weakness present in the database access layer code generated with an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tool or a weakness in the way that a developer used a persistence framework to inject his or her own SQL commands to be executed against the underlying database. The attack here is similar to plain SQL injection, except that the application does not use JDBC to directly talk to the database, but instead it uses a data access layer generated by an ORM tool or framework (e.g. Hibernate). While most of the time code generated by an ORM tool contains safe access methods that are immune to SQL injection, sometimes either due to some weakness in the generated code or due to the fact that the developer failed to use the generated access methods properly, SQL injection is still possible.
- SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering An attacker modifies the parameters of the SOAP message that is sent from the service consumer to the service provider to initiate a SQL injection attack. On the service provider side, the SOAP message is parsed and parameters are not properly validated before being used to access a database in a way that does not use parameter binding, thus enabling the attacker to control the structure of the executed SQL query. This pattern describes a SQL injection attack with the delivery mechanism being a SOAP message.
- Expanding Control over the Operating System from the Database An attacker is able to leverage access gained to the database to read / write data to the file system, compromise the operating system, create a tunnel for accessing the host machine, and use this access to potentially attack other machines on the same network as the database machine. Traditionally SQL injections attacks are viewed as a way to gain unauthorized read access to the data stored in the database, modify the data in the database, delete the data, etc. However, almost every data base management system (DBMS) system includes facilities that if compromised allow an attacker complete access to the file system, operating system, and full access to the host running the database. The attacker can then use this privileged access to launch subsequent attacks. These facilities include dropping into a command shell, creating user defined functions that can call system level libraries present on the host machine, stored procedures, etc.
- SQL Injection This attack exploits target software that constructs SQL statements based on user input. An attacker crafts input strings so that when the target software constructs SQL statements based on the input, the resulting SQL statement performs actions other than those the application intended. SQL Injection results from failure of the application to appropriately validate input. When specially crafted user-controlled input consisting of SQL syntax is used without proper validation as part of SQL queries, it is possible to glean information from the database in ways not envisaged during application design. Depending upon the database and the design of the application, it may also be possible to leverage injection to have the database execute system-related commands of the attackers' choice. SQL Injection enables an attacker to talk directly to the database, thus bypassing the application completely. Successful injection can cause information disclosure as well as ability to add or modify data in the database. In order to successfully inject SQL and retrieve information from a database, an attacker:
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)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94117
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94117
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-34
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-34