An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.

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.

The version of phpMyAdmin is affected by a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the login form leading to potentially allowing an attacker to perform SQL injection. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4639-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that there was a bug in the way phpMyAdmin handles the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage     tables. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause phpmyAdmin to leak sensitive     files. (CVE-2018-19968)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this for     an XSS attack. (CVE-2018-19970)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin mishandled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to     execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. (CVE-2018-7260)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. (CVE-2019-11768)

    It was discovered that phpmyadmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this     to perform a CSRF attack. (CVE-2019-12616)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted username. (CVE-2019-6798,     CVE-2020-10804, CVE-2020-5504)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive files to be leaked if certain configuration     options were set. An attacker could use this vulnerability to access confidential information.
    (CVE-2019-6799)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to sanitize certain input. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database or table name.
    (CVE-2020-10802)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly handle data from the database when displaying it. If an     attacker were to insert specially- crafted data into certain database tables, the attacker could execute a     cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2020-10803)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin was vulnerable to an XSS attack. If a victim were to click on a crafted     link, an attacker could run malicious JavaScript on the victim's system. (CVE-2020-26934)

    It was discovered that phpMyAdmin did not properly handler certain SQL statements in the search feature.
    An attacker could use this vulnerability to inject malicious SQL into a query. (CVE-2020-26935)

    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.
    (CVE-2019-19617)

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.

This update for phpMyAdmin fixes the following issues :

phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.9.0.1 :

  - Several issues with SYSTEM VERSIONING tables

  - Fixed json encode error in export

  - Fixed JavaScript events not activating on input (sql     bookmark issue)

  - Show Designer combo boxes when adding a constraint

  - Fix edit view

  - Fixed invalid default value for bit field

  - Fix several errors relating to GIS data types

  - Fixed JavaScript error PMA_messages is not defined

  - Fixed import XML data with leading zeros

  - Fixed php notice, added support for 'DELETE HISTORY'     table privilege (MariaDB >= 10.3.4)

  - Fixed MySQL 8.0.0 issues with GIS display

  - Fixed 'Server charset' in 'Database server' tab showing     wrong information

  - Fixed can not copy user on Percona Server 5.7

  - Updated sql-parser to version 4.3.2, which fixes several     parsing and linting problems

  - boo#1137497 / PMASA-2019-4 / CVE-2019-12616 / CWE-661:
    Fixed CSRF vulnerability in login form     https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-4/

  - boo#1137496 / PMASA-2019-3 / CVE-2019-11768 / CWE-661:
    Fixed SQL injection in Designer feature     https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-3/

Multiple security vulnerabilities were fixed in phpmyadmin, a MySQL web administration tool, which prevent possible SQL injection attacks, CSRF, the bypass of user restrictions, information disclosure or denial of service.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin packages.

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.

The phpMyAdmin development team reports : Summary CSRF vulnerability in login form Description A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) through the victim. Severity We consider this vulnerability to be severe. Mitigation factor Only the 'cookie' auth_type is affected; users can temporary use phpMyAdmin's http authentication as a workaround.

Upstream announcement :

Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1**, a bugfix release that includes important security fixes.

This release fixes two security vulnerabilities :

  - PMASA-2019-3 is a SQL injection flaw in the Designer     feature

  - PMASA-2019-4 is a CSRF attack that's possible through     the 'cookie' login form

Upgrading is highly recommended for all users. Using the 'http' auth_type instead of 'cookie' can mitigate the CSRF attack.

The solution for the CSRF attack does remove the former functionality to log in directly through URL parameters (as mentioned in FAQ 4.8, such as https://example.com/phpmyadmin/?pma_username=root&password=foo). Such behavior was discouraged and is now removed. Other query parameters work as expected; only pma_username and pma_password have been removed.

This release also includes fixes for many bugs, including :

  - Several issues with SYSTEM VERSIONING tables

  - Fixed json encode error in export

  - Fixed JavaScript events not activating on input (sql     bookmark issue)

  - Show Designer combo boxes when adding a constraint

  - Fix edit view

  - Fixed invalid default value for bit field

  - Fix several errors relating to GIS data types

  - Fixed JavaScript error PMA_messages is not defined

  - Fixed import XML data with leading zeros

  - Fixed php notice, added support for 'DELETE HISTORY'     table privilege (MariaDB >= 10.3.4)

  - Fixed MySQL 8.0.0 issues with GIS display

  - Fixed 'Server charset' in 'Database server' tab showing     wrong information

  - Fixed can not copy user on Percona Server 5.7

  - Updated sql-parser to version 4.3.2, which fixes several     parsing and linting problems

There are many, many more bug fixes thanks to the efforts of our developers, Google Summer of Code applicants, and other contributors.

The phpMyAdmin team

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**phpmyadmin/sql-parser version 4.3.2**

  - Fix redundant whitespaces in build() outputs (#228)

  - Fix incorrect error on DEFAULT keyword in ALTER     operation (#229)

  - Fix incorrect outputs from Query::getClause (#233)

  - Add support for reading a SQL file from stdin

  - Fix for missing tokenize-query in Composer's vendor/bin/     directory

  - Fix for PHP warnings with an incomplete CASE expression     (#241)

  - Fix for error message with multiple CALL statements     (#223)

  - Recognize the question mark character as a parameter     (#242)

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

According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.x prior to 4.9.0. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site request forgery (XSRF) vulnerability. A remote attacker can exploit this by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page, allowing the attacker to disclose sensitive information, impersonate the user's identity, or inject malicious content into the victim's web browser.

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

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
113297	phpMyAdmin 4.x < 4.9.0 Cross-Site Request Forgery	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	medium
143119	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : phpMyAdmin vulnerabilities (USN-4639-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
126490	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2019-1689)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
125957	Debian DLA-1821-1 : phpmyadmin security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
125936	FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- CSRF vulnerability in login form (a5681027-8e03-11e9-85f4-6805ca0b3d42)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
125907	Fedora 29 : php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser / phpMyAdmin (2019-33649e2e64)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
125906	Fedora 30 : php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser / phpMyAdmin (2019-13d2ba0aed)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
125856	phpMyAdmin 4.x < 4.9.0 CSRF vulnerablity (PMASA-2019-4)	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium

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