CVE-2016-2040

moderate-risk

Published 2016-02-20

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) table name, (2) SET value, (3) search query, or (4) hostname in a Location header.

Do I need to act?

0.49% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 5.4/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Opensuse

Phpmyadmin

Fedora

Affected Vendors

Phpmyadmin Opensuse Fedoraproject

References (18)

Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.h...

Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.h...

Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.html

Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627

Patch http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-3.php

Patch https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/75a55824012406a08c4debf5ddb7ae41...

Patch https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/aca42efa01917cc0fe8cfdb2927a6399...

Patch https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/edffb52884b09562490081c3b8666ef4...