libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4843-1 advisory.

  - libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before     4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.
    (CVE-2014-9218)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary     PHP commands through the array export feature. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior     to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected. (CVE-2016-6609)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL     injection attack against the account of the control user. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x     versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected. (CVE-2016-6619)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack     by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x     versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected. (CVE-2016-6630)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. It is possible to bypass AllowRoot restriction     ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']) and deny rules for username by using Null Byte in the username. All     4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to     4.0.10.18) are affected. (CVE-2016-9849)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the arg_separator is different from its default & value, the     CSRF token was not properly stripped from the return URL of the preference import action. All 4.6.x     versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are     affected. (CVE-2016-9866)

  - 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. (CVE-2017-18264)

  - phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a DOS weakness in the table editing functionality     (CVE-2017-1000014)

  - phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a CSS injection attack through crafted cookie parameters     (CVE-2017-1000015)

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in db_central_columns.php in phpMyAdmin before 4.7.8 allows     remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL. (CVE-2018-7260)

  - An issue was discovered in js/designer/move.js in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.2. A Cross-Site Scripting     vulnerability has been found where an attacker can use a crafted database name to trigger an XSS attack     when that database is referenced from the Designer feature. (CVE-2018-12581)

  - An attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4 to leak the contents of a local file because of an error     in the transformation feature. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage     tables, although these can easily be created in any database to which the attacker has access. An attacker     must have valid credentials to log in to phpMyAdmin; this vulnerability does not allow an attacker to     circumvent the login system. (CVE-2018-19968)

  - In phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4, an XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can     deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name. (CVE-2018-19970)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. A vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted     username can be used to trigger a SQL injection attack through the designer feature. (CVE-2019-6798)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0.1. A vulnerability was reported where a specially     crafted database name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the designer feature.
    (CVE-2019-11768)

  - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. 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) to the victim. (CVE-2019-12616)

  - A CSRF issue in phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 allows deletion of any server in the Setup page. (CVE-2019-12922)

  - phpMyAdmin before 4.9.2 does not escape certain Git information, related to     libraries/classes/Display/GitRevision.php and libraries/classes/Footer.php. (CVE-2019-19617)

  - In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A     malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page.
    An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server. (CVE-2020-5504)

  - phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 allows XSS through the transformation feature via a crafted     link. (CVE-2020-26934)

  - An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL     injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature.
    An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query. (CVE-2020-26935)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Several issues have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web administration tool for MySQL.

  - CVE-2014-8958 (Wheezy only)     Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2014-9218 (Wheezy only)     Denial of service (resource consumption) via a long     password.

  - CVE-2015-2206     Risk of BREACH attack due to reflected parameter.

  - CVE-2015-3902     XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup.

  - CVE-2015-3903 (Jessie only)     Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API     call to GitHub.

  - CVE-2015-6830 (Jessie only)     Vulnerability that allows bypassing the reCaptcha test.

  - CVE-2015-7873 (Jessie only)     Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to     an external site.

Several issues have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web administration tool for MySQL.

CVE-2014-8958

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

CVE-2014-9218

Denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

CVE-2015-2206

Risk of BREACH attack due to reflected parameter.

CVE-2015-3902

XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

phpMyAdmin on openSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 was updated to 4.1.14.8. This update fixes one vulnerability.

  - Security fixes :

  - PMASA-2014-17 (CVE-2014-9218, CWE-661 CWE-400)     [boo#908363]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     17.php

  - sf#4611 [security] DOS attack with long passwords

phpMyAdmin on openSUSE 13.2 was updated to 4.2.13.1 (2014-12-03)

  - Security fixes :

  - PMASA-2014-18 (CVE-2014-9219, CWE-661 CWE-79)     [boo#908364]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     18.php

  - sf#4612 [security] XSS vulnerability in redirection     mechanism

  - PMASA-2014-17 (CVE-2014-9218, CWE-661 CWE-400)     [boo#908363]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     17.php

  - sf#4611 [security] DOS attack with long passwords

  - Bugfixes :

  - sf#4604 Query history not being deleted

  - sf#4057 db/table query string parameters no longer work

  - sf#4605 Unseen messages in tracking

  - sf#4606 Tracking report export as SQL dump does not work

  - sf#4607 Syntax error during db_copy operation

  - sf#4608 SELECT permission issues with relations and     restricted access

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in phpmyadmin :

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password (CVE-2014-9218).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the redirection feature in url.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the url parameter (CVE-2014-9219).

This upgrade provides the latest phpmyadmin version (4.2.13.1) to address these vulnerabilities.

phpMyAdmin 4.2.13.1 (2014-12-03) ================================

  - [security] XSS vulnerability in redirection mechanism

    - [security] DOS attack with long passwords

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

Versions of phpMyAdmin earlier than 4.0.10.7, 4.1.14.8, or 4.2.13.1 are unpatched for a denial of service vulnerability due to the way the application handles very long passwords. An attacker attempting to authenticate repeatedly using a large password string may be able to trigger this condition on the server.

According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.0.x prior to 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x prior to 4.1.14.8, or 4.2.x prior to 4.2.13.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw exists in handling overly long passwords. It is     possible that a remote attacker can cause a denial of     service by using a long password. (CVE-2014-9218)

  - A cross-site scripting flaw exists due to the improper     validation of URLs when handling redirection. A remote     attacker, by using a specially crafted request, could     execute arbitrary script code within the trust     relationship of the browser and server. Note that this     applies only to versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.13.1.
    (CVE-2014-9219)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

DoS vulnerability with long passwords.

With very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin.

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

This vulnerability can be mitigated by configuring throttling in the webserver.

XSS vulnerability in redirection mechanism.

With a crafted URL it was possible to trigger an XSS in the redirection mechanism in phpMyAdmin.

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183178	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : phpMyAdmin vulnerabilities (USN-4843-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
86665	Debian DSA-3382-1 : phpmyadmin - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
86641	Debian DLA-336-1 : phpmyadmin security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
80049	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-SU-2014:1636-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
79988	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : phpmyadmin (MDVSA-2014:243)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
79948	Fedora 19 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc19 (2014-16474)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
79936	Fedora 20 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc20 (2014-16358)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
79933	Fedora 21 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc21 (2014-16327)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
8592	phpMyAdmin 4.0.x < 4.0.10.7 / 4.1.x < 4.1.14.8 / 4.2.x < 4.2.13.1 DoS (PMASA-2014-17)	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI	medium
79797	phpMyAdmin 4.0.x < 4.0.10.7 / 4.1.x < 4.1.14.8 / 4.2.x < 4.2.13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2014-17 - PMASA-2014-18)	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium
79734	FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- XSS and DoS vulnerabilities (c9c46fbf-7b83-11e4-a96e-6805ca0b3d42)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2014-9218

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