CVE-2017-18264

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
PHPmyadmin
Status
PHPmyadmin
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 May 2018

Summary

An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). This can allow the login of users who have no password set even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default). This occurs because some implementations of the PHP substr function return false when given '' as the first argument.

References

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-8/
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg0...
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97211
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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