FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- Content spoofing vulnerability (08d11134-79c5-11e5-8987-6805ca0b3d42)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86584

Synopsis

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

Description

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a content spoofing attack using the phpMyAdmin's redirection mechanism to external sites.

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since the spoofed content is escaped and no HTML injection is possible.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-5/

http://www.nessus.org/u?63d27bc6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86584

File Name: freebsd_pkg_08d1113479c511e589876805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 10/26/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

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: 10/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7873