Debian DLA-2024-1 : phpmyadmin security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131782

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin before 4.9.2 does not escape certain Git information, related to libraries/display_git_revision.lib.php and libraries/Footer.class.php.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in phpmyadmin version 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u7. This upload was prepared by Utkarsh Gupta <[email protected]>

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin packages.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected phpmyadmin package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00006.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/phpmyadmin

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131782

File Name: debian_DLA-2024.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2019

Updated: 4/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19617