libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4843-1 advisory.

    Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of     passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of database     names in the PHP Array export feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run     arbitrary PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6609)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use     this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu     16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6619)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize input. An authenticated attacker     could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM     and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use     this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive information to be leaked when the     argument separator in a URL was not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to     obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2016-9866)

    Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting user access due to the behavior of     the substr function on some PHP versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login     restrictions established for users that have no password set. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of parameters     sent during a table editing operation. An attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless     recursion and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04     ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

    Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input used to generate a web     page. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-7260)

    It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An attacker could possibly use this to     trigger a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2018-12581)

    Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive information to unauthorized actors due to     an error in its transformation feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak the     contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this to     perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this     to perform a cross site request forgery attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2019-12616)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this     to perform a cross site request forgery attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04     ESM. (CVE-2019-12922)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted username. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6798)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to possibly execute an HTML injection or a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-19617)

    CSW Research Labs discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input.

    An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu     16.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-5504)

    Giwan Go and Yelang Lee discovered that phpMyAdmin was vulnerable to an XSS attack in the transformation     feature. If a victim were to click on a crafted link, an attacker could run malicious JavaScript on the     victim's system. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-26934)

    Andre S discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain SQL statements in the search feature. A     remote, authenticated attacker could use this to inject malicious SQL into a query. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-26935)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Several issues have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web administration tool for MySQL.

  - CVE-2014-8958 (Wheezy only)     Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2014-9218 (Wheezy only)     Denial of service (resource consumption) via a long     password.

  - CVE-2015-2206     Risk of BREACH attack due to reflected parameter.

  - CVE-2015-3902     XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup.

  - CVE-2015-3903 (Jessie only)     Vulnerability allowing man-in-the-middle attack on API     call to GitHub.

  - CVE-2015-6830 (Jessie only)     Vulnerability that allows bypassing the reCaptcha test.

  - CVE-2015-7873 (Jessie only)     Content spoofing vulnerability when redirecting user to     an external site.

Several issues have been fixed in phpMyAdmin, the web administration tool for MySQL.

CVE-2014-8958

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

CVE-2014-9218

Denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password.

CVE-2015-2206

Risk of BREACH attack due to reflected parameter.

CVE-2015-3902

XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup.

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.

phpMyAdmin on openSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 was updated to 4.1.14.8. This update fixes one vulnerability.

  - Security fixes :

  - PMASA-2014-17 (CVE-2014-9218, CWE-661 CWE-400)     [boo#908363]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     17.php

  - sf#4611 [security] DOS attack with long passwords

phpMyAdmin on openSUSE 13.2 was updated to 4.2.13.1 (2014-12-03)

  - Security fixes :

  - PMASA-2014-18 (CVE-2014-9219, CWE-661 CWE-79)     [boo#908364]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     18.php

  - sf#4612 [security] XSS vulnerability in redirection     mechanism

  - PMASA-2014-17 (CVE-2014-9218, CWE-661 CWE-400)     [boo#908363]     http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-     17.php

  - sf#4611 [security] DOS attack with long passwords

  - Bugfixes :

  - sf#4604 Query history not being deleted

  - sf#4057 db/table query string parameters no longer work

  - sf#4605 Unseen messages in tracking

  - sf#4606 Tracking report export as SQL dump does not work

  - sf#4607 Syntax error during db_copy operation

  - sf#4608 SELECT permission issues with relations and     restricted access

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in phpmyadmin :

libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a long password (CVE-2014-9218).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the redirection feature in url.php in phpMyAdmin 4.2.x before 4.2.13.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the url parameter (CVE-2014-9219).

This upgrade provides the latest phpmyadmin version (4.2.13.1) to address these vulnerabilities.

phpMyAdmin 4.2.13.1 (2014-12-03) ================================

  - [security] XSS vulnerability in redirection mechanism

    - [security] DOS attack with long passwords

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.

Versions of phpMyAdmin earlier than 4.0.10.7, 4.1.14.8, or 4.2.13.1 are unpatched for a denial of service vulnerability due to the way the application handles very long passwords. An attacker attempting to authenticate repeatedly using a large password string may be able to trigger this condition on the server.

According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.0.x prior to 4.0.10.7, 4.1.x prior to 4.1.14.8, or 4.2.x prior to 4.2.13.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw exists in handling overly long passwords. It is     possible that a remote attacker can cause a denial of     service by using a long password. (CVE-2014-9218)

  - A cross-site scripting flaw exists due to the improper     validation of URLs when handling redirection. A remote     attacker, by using a specially crafted request, could     execute arbitrary script code within the trust     relationship of the browser and server. Note that this     applies only to versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.13.1.
    (CVE-2014-9219)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

DoS vulnerability with long passwords.

With very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin.

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

This vulnerability can be mitigated by configuring throttling in the webserver.

XSS vulnerability in redirection mechanism.

With a crafted URL it was possible to trigger an XSS in the redirection mechanism in phpMyAdmin.

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183178	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : phpMyAdmin vulnerabilities (USN-4843-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
86665	Debian DSA-3382-1 : phpmyadmin - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
86641	Debian DLA-336-1 : phpmyadmin security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
80049	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-SU-2014:1636-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
79988	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : phpmyadmin (MDVSA-2014:243)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
79948	Fedora 19 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc19 (2014-16474)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
79936	Fedora 20 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc20 (2014-16358)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
79933	Fedora 21 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.13.1-1.fc21 (2014-16327)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
8592	phpMyAdmin 4.0.x < 4.0.10.7 / 4.1.x < 4.1.14.8 / 4.2.x < 4.2.13.1 DoS (PMASA-2014-17)	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI	medium
79797	phpMyAdmin 4.0.x < 4.0.10.7 / 4.1.x < 4.1.14.8 / 4.2.x < 4.2.13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2014-17 - PMASA-2014-18)	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium
79734	FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- XSS and DoS vulnerabilities (c9c46fbf-7b83-11e4-a96e-6805ca0b3d42)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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