Debian DSA-1824-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 39569

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-1150 Cross site scripting vulnerability in the export page allow for an attacker that can place crafted cookies with the user to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

- CVE-2009-1151 Static code injection allows for a remote attacker to inject arbitrary code into phpMyAdmin via the setup.php script. This script is in Debian under normal circumstances protected via Apache authentication.
However, because of a recent worm based on this exploit, we are patching it regardless, to also protect installations that somehow still expose the setup.php script.

Solution

Upgrade the phpmyadmin package.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9.1.1-11.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.11.8.1-5+lenny1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1150

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1151

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1824

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39569

File Name: debian_DSA-1824.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2009

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2009

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/15/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (PhpMyAdmin Config File Code Injection)

Elliot (Phpmyadmin File Upload)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1150, CVE-2009-1151

BID: 34251

CWE: 79, 94

DSA: 1824