Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin before 3.2.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted SQL bookmark.

The first security release for phpMyAdmin 3.2.0: - [security] XSS:
Insufficient output sanitizing in bookmarks This version contains a number of small new features and some bug fixes: - [core] better support for vendor customisation (based on what Debian needs) - [rfe] warn when session.gc_maxlifetime is less than cookie validity - [rfe] configurable default charset for import - [rfe] link to InnoDB status when error 150 occurs - [rfe] strip ` from column names on import - [rfe] LeftFrameDBSeparator can be an array - [privileges] Extra back reference when editing table-specific privileges - [display] Sortable database columns - [lang] Wrong string in setup script hints - [cleanup] XHTML cleanup, - [display] Possibility of disabling the sliders - [privileges] Create user for existing database - [privileges] Cleanup - [auth] AllowNoPasswordRoot error message is too vague - [XHTML] View table headers/footers completely - [core] support column name having square brackets

  - [lang] Lithuanian update - [auth] New setting     AllowNoPassword (supercedes AllowNoPasswordRoot) that     applies to all accounts (even the anonymous user) -     [relation] Missing code with hashing for relationship     editing - [rfe] Added option to disable mcrypt warning.
    - [bug] Request-URI Too Large error from Location header
    - [rfe] Check for relations support on main page. -     [rfe] Explanation for using Host table. - [rfe] Link to     download more themes. - [rfe] Add option to generate     password on change password page. - [rfe] Allow logging     of user status with Apache. - [patch] None default is     different than other None in some languages. - [lang]     Chinese Simplified update - [display] Sort arrows     problem - [security] warn about existence of config     directory on main page - [lang] Polish update - [export]     Escape new line in CSV export - [patch] Optimizations     for PHP loops - [import] SQL_MODE not saved during     Partial Import - [auth] cache control missing (PHP-CGI)
    - [parser] Incorrect parsing of constraints in ALTER     TABLE - [status] Server status - replication - [edit]     Multi-row change with ']' improved - [rfe] Automatically     copy generated password - [interface] Table with name     'log_views' is incorrectly displayed as a view - [patch]     Detect mcrypt initialization failure - [lang] Galician     update

  - [lang] Swedish update - [lang] Norwegian update - [lang]     Catalan update - [lang] Finnish update - [lang]     Hungarian update

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The phpMyAdmin project reports :

It was possible to conduct an XSS attack via a crafted SQL bookmark.

All 3.x releases on which the 'bookmarks' feature is active are affected, previous versions are not.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
39606	Fedora 10 : phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-1.fc10 (2009-7340)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
39605	Fedora 9 : phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-1.fc9 (2009-7337)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
39603	Fedora 11 : phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-1.fc11 (2009-7329)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
39579	FreeBSD : phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerability (ba73f494-65a8-11de-aef5-001c2514716c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2009-2284

medium

Tenable Plugins

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