BID:9564

phpMyAdmin Export.PHP File Disclosure Vulnerability

Info

phpMyAdmin Export.PHP File Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	9564
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 03 2004 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 03 2004 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Cedric Cochin <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 pl1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 -rc2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 -rc1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.4 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5 .0 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.4 .0 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.3.2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.3.1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2.6 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2.5 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2.4 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2.3 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2.2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2 rc3 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2 rc2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2 rc1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.2 pre1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.1 .2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.1 .1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.1 - Debian Linux 2.2 sparc - Debian Linux 2.2 sparc - Debian Linux 2.2 sparc - Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc - Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc - Debian Linux 2.2 powerpc - Debian Linux 2.2 arm - Debian Linux 2.2 arm - Debian Linux 2.2 arm - Debian Linux 2.2 alpha - Debian Linux 2.2 alpha - Debian Linux 2.2 alpha - Debian Linux 2.2 68k - Debian Linux 2.2 68k - Debian Linux 2.2 68k - Debian Linux 2.2 - Debian Linux 2.2 - Debian Linux 2.2 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.5.1 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.5.1 - FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.5.1 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0 - Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.6 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.6 - OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.6 - Redhat Linux 7.0 - Redhat Linux 7.0 - Redhat Linux 7.0 - Redhat Linux 6.2 - Redhat Linux 6.2 - Redhat Linux 6.2 - Sun Solaris 8_x86 - Sun Solaris 8_x86 - Sun Solaris 8_x86 - Sun Solaris 8_sparc - Sun Solaris 8_sparc - Sun Solaris 8_sparc - Sun Solaris 7.0_x86 - Sun Solaris 7.0_x86 - Sun Solaris 7.0_x86 - Sun Solaris 7.0 - Sun Solaris 7.0 - Sun Solaris 7.0 - Sun Solaris 2.6_x86 - Sun Solaris 2.6_x86 - Sun Solaris 2.6_x86 - Sun Solaris 2.6 - Sun Solaris 2.6 - Sun Solaris 2.6 - SuSE Linux 7.1 - SuSE Linux 7.0 - SuSE Linux 7.0 - SuSE Linux 7.0 - SuSE Linux 6.4 - SuSE Linux 6.4 - SuSE Linux 6.4 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0.5 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0.4 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0.3 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0.2 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0.1 phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0

Not Vulnerable:	phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.5.6 -rc1

Discussion

phpMyAdmin Export.PHP File Disclosure Vulnerability

phpMyAdmin is prone to a vulnerability that may permit remote attackers to gain access to files that are readable by the hosting web server. The issue is reported to exist in the 'export.php' script and may be exploited by providing directory traversal sequences as an argument for a specific URI parameter.

Exploit / POC

phpMyAdmin Export.PHP File Disclosure Vulnerability

The following example request has been supplied:

http://www.example.com/[phpMyAdmin_directory]/export.php?what=../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

Solution / Fix

phpMyAdmin Export.PHP File Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released an advisory GLSA-200402-05 to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to obtain fixes:

emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.5.6_rc1"
emerge ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.5.6_rc1"
emerge clean

The vendor has released an upgrade to address this issue:

phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin 2.0