Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-19968 - Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
An attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4 to leak the contents of a local file because of an error in the transformation feature. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables, although these can easily be created in any database to which the attacker has access. An attacker must have valid credentials to log in to phpMyAdmin; this vulnerability does not allow an attacker to circumvent the login system.
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 SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-1547.NASL description This update for phpMyAdmin fixes security issues and bugs. Security issues addressed in the 4.8.4 release (bsc#1119245) : - CVE-2018-19968: Local file inclusion through transformation feature - CVE-2018-19969: XSRF/CSRF vulnerability - CVE-2018-19970: XSS vulnerability in navigation tree This update also contains the following upstream bug fixes and improvements : - Ensure that database names with a dot ( last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-12-17 plugin id 119707 published 2018-12-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119707 title openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2018-1547) 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-2018-1547. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(119707); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-19968", "CVE-2018-19969", "CVE-2018-19970"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2018-1547)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2018-1547 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for phpMyAdmin fixes security issues and bugs. Security issues addressed in the 4.8.4 release (bsc#1119245) : - CVE-2018-19968: Local file inclusion through transformation feature - CVE-2018-19969: XSRF/CSRF vulnerability - CVE-2018-19970: XSS vulnerability in navigation tree This update also contains the following upstream bug fixes and improvements : - Ensure that database names with a dot ('.') are handled properly when DisableIS is true - Fix for message 'Error while copying database (pma__column_info)' - Move operation causes 'SELECT * FROM `undefined`' error - When logging with $cfg['AuthLog'] to syslog, successful login messages were not logged when $cfg['AuthLogSuccess'] was true - Multiple errors and regressions with Designer" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119245" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected phpMyAdmin package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpMyAdmin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/12/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/12/17"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE15\.0|SUSE42\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "15.0 / 42.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.0", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.8.4-lp150.2.12.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"phpMyAdmin-4.8.4-24.1") ) 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 family CGI abuses NASL id PHPMYADMIN_PMASA_2018_8.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.x prior to 4.8.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An arbitrary file read vulnerability exists in the transformation feature. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to read arbitrary files and disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-19968) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 119601 published 2018-12-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119601 title phpMyAdmin 4.x < 4.8.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2018-6) (PMASA-2018-8) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-1009.NASL description This update for phpMyAdmin fixes security issues and bugs. Security issues addressed in the 4.8.4 release (bsc#1119245) : - CVE-2018-19968: Local file inclusion through transformation feature - CVE-2018-19969: XSRF/CSRF vulnerability - CVE-2018-19970: XSS vulnerability in navigation tree This update also contains the following upstream bug fixes and improvements : - Ensure that database names with a dot ( last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2019-03-27 plugin id 123153 published 2019-03-27 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/123153 title openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2019-1009) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1658.NASL description A couple of vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpmyadmin, MySQL web administration tool. CVE-2018-19968 An attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4 to leak the contents of a local file because of an error in the transformation feature. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables, although these can easily be created in any database to which the attacker has access. An attacker must have valid credentials to log in to phpMyAdmin; this vulnerability does not allow an attacker to circumvent the login system. CVE-2018-19970 A XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-04 plugin id 121555 published 2019-02-04 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/121555 title Debian DLA-1658-1 : phpmyadmin security update NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201904-16.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201904-16 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124072 published 2019-04-16 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/124072 title GLSA-201904-16 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
The Hacker News
id | THN:A123B10ACF1F2BE17061A10CC79D1989 |
last seen | 2018-12-11 |
modified | 2018-12-11 |
published | 2018-12-11 |
reporter | The Hacker News |
source | https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/phpmyadmin-security-update.html |
title | phpMyAdmin Releases Critical Software Update — Patch Your Sites Now! |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106178
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106178
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-16
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-16
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-6/
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-6/