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Fedora 28 : phpMyAdmin (2018-68349e3094)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120489

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream announcement :

The phpMyAdmin team is pleased to announce the release of **phpMyAdmin version 4.8.2**. Among other bug fixes, this contains an important security update and it is highly recommended that all users upgrade immediately.

The urgent vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to exploit a phpMyAdmin feature to show and potentially execute files on the server. PHP open_basedir restrictions mitigate the effect of this flaw. For further details, see the PMASA announcement .

A second flaw was also fixed allowing an attacker to use a specially crafted database name to trick a user in to executing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in the Designer feature .

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

 - WHERE 0 clause causes a fatal error

 - Fix missing 'INDEX' icon

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-2018-68349e3094

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120489

File Name: fedora_2018-68349e3094.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: 7/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12581