FreeBSD : phpmyadmin -- increased privilege vulnerability (6192ae3d-9595-11d9-a9e0-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18955

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The phpMyAdmin team reports :

Escaping of the '_' character was not properly done, giving a wildcard privilege when editing db-specific privileges with phpMyAdmin.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://sourceforge.net/p/legacy_/forum/forum.php?forum_id=450948

http://www.nessus.org/u?502f7f16

http://www.nessus.org/u?59b5331a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18955

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6192ae3d959511d9a9e00001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0653