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Fedora 28 : phpMyAdmin (2018-f2b24ce26e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120901

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream announcement :

**Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.8.3 is released**

The phpMyAdmin team is pleased to announce the release of phpMyAdmin version 4.8.2. Among other bug fixes, this contains a security fix for an issue that can be exploited when importing files.

A flaw was discovered with how warning messages are displayed while importing a file. This attack requires a specially crafted file but can allow an attacker to trick the user in to executing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. We recommend updating immediately to mitigate this attack.

In addition to the security fixes, this release also includes these bug fixes and more as part of our regular release cycle :

 - An error where a database is named 0

 - Fix for NULL as default not being shown

 - Fix for recent tables list

 - Fix for slow performance with table filtering

 - Two-factor authentication (2FA) fails if the GD PHP library is missing

 - Event scheduler toggle does not work

 - ERR_BLOCKED_BY_XSS_AUDITOR error when exporting a table

 - PHP 7.3 warning: 'continue' in 'switch' is equal to 'break'

And several more. Complete notes are in the ChangeLog file included with this release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f2b24ce26e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120901

File Name: fedora_2018-f2b24ce26e.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15605