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phpMyAdmin -- CSRF vulnerability in login form

Affected packages
phpMyAdmin < 4.9.0
phpMyAdmin-php56 < 4.9.0
phpMyAdmin-php70 < 4.9.0
phpMyAdmin-php71 < 4.9.0
phpMyAdmin-php72 < 4.9.0

Details

VuXML ID a5681027-8e03-11e9-85f4-6805ca0b3d42
Discovery 2019-06-04
Entry 2019-06-13

The phpMyAdmin development team reports:

Summary

CSRF vulnerability in login form

Description

A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) through the victim.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be severe.

Mitigation factor

Only the 'cookie' auth_type is affected; users can temporary use phpMyAdmin's http authentication as a workaround.

References

CVE Name CVE-2019-12616
URL https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-4/