phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 allows XSS through the transformation feature via a crafted link.

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 installed on the remote web server is 4.9.x prior to 4.9.6 or 5.0.x prior to 5.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
 - It may permit an attacker to craft a malicious link leading to a Cross-Site Scripting attack (XSS) vulnerability if a user clicks on it.
 - It may permit an attacker to craft a malicious search request, leading to a SQL injection vulnerability in the SearchController component 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 host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202101-35 (phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

According to its self-reported version, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.9.x prior to 4.9.6 or 5.0.x prior to 5.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 allows XSS through the transformation feature via a crafted     link. (CVE-2020-26934)

  - An issue was discovered in SearchController in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A SQL     injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature.
    An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query. (CVE-2020-26935)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 4.9.7 (boo#1177842) :

  - Fix two factor authentication that was broken in 4.9.6

  - Fix incompatibilities with older PHP versions

Update to 4.9.6 :

  - Fixed XSS relating to the transformation feature     (boo#1177561 CVE-2020-26934, PMASA-2020-5)

  - Fixed SQL injection vulnerability in SearchController     (boo#1177562 CVE-2020-26935, PMASA-2020-6) 

Update to 4.9.5 :

This is a security release containing several bug fixes.

  - CVE-2020-10804: SQL injection vulnerability in the user     accounts page, particularly when changing a password     (boo#1167335, PMASA-2020-2)

  - CVE-2020-10802: SQL injection vulnerability relating to     the search feature (boo#1167336, PMASA-2020-3)

  - CVE-2020-10803: SQL injection and XSS having to do with     displaying results (boo#1167337, PMASA-2020-4)

  - Removing of the 'options' field for the external     transformation.

Several vulnerabilities were found in package phpmyadmin.

CVE-2019-19617

phpMyAdmin does not escape certain Git information, related to libraries/classes/Display/GitRevision.php and libraries/classes /Footer.php.

CVE-2020-26934

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker can cause an XSS attack through the transformation feature.

If an attacker sends a crafted link to the victim with the malicious JavaScript, when the victim clicks on the link, the JavaScript will run and complete the instructions made by the attacker.

CVE-2020-26935

A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in how phpMyAdmin processes SQL statements in the search feature. An attacker could use this flaw to inject malicious SQL in to a query.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.6.6-4+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpmyadmin packages.

For the detailed security status of phpmyadmin please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/phpmyadmin

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.

**Version 5.0.3** (2020-10-09)

  - issue #15983 Require twig ^2.9

  - issue Fix option to import files locally appearing as     not available

  - issue #16048 Fix to allow NULL as a default bit value

  - issue #16062 Fix 'htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1     to be string, null given' on Export xml

  - issue #16078 Fix no charts in monitor when using a     decimal separator ','

  - issue #16041 Fix IN(...) clause doesn't permit multiple     values on 'Search' page

  - issue #14411 Support double tap to edit on mobile

  - issue #16043 Fix php error 'Use of undefined constant     MYSQLI_TYPE_JSON' when using the mysqlnd extension

  - issue #14611 Fix fatal JS error on index creation after     using Enter key to submit the form

  - issue #16012 Set 'axis-order' to swap lon and lat on     MySQL >= 8.1

  - issue #16104 Fixed overwriting a bookmarked query causes     a PHP fatal error

  - issue Fix typo in a condition in the Sql class

  - issue #15996 Fix local setup doc links pointing to a     wrong location

  - issue #16093 Fix error importing utf-8 with bom sql file

  - issue #16089 2FA UX enhancement: autofocus 2FA input

  - issue #16127 Fix table column description PHP error when     ['DisableIS'] = true;

  - issue #16130 Fix local documentation links display when     a PHP extension is missing

  - issue Fix some twig code deprecations for php 8

  - issue Fix ENUM and SET display when editing procedures     and functions

  - issue Keep full query state on 'auto refresh' process     list

  - issue Keep columns order on 'auto refresh' process list

  - issue Fixed editing a failed query from the error     message

  - issue #16166 Fix the alter user privileges query to make     it MySQL 8.0.11+ compatible

  - issue Fix copy table to another database when the nbr of     DBs is > $cfg['MaxDbList']

  - issue #16157 Fix relations of tables having spaces or     special chars not showing in the Designer

  - issue #16052 Fix a very rare JS error occuring on     mousemove event

  - issue #16162 Make a foreign key link clickable in a new     tab after the value was saved and replaced

  - issue #16163 Fixed a PHP notice 'Undefined index:
    column_info' on views

  - issue #14478 Fix the data stream when exporting data in     file mode

  - issue #16184 Fix templates/ directory not found error

  - issue #16184 Remove chdir logic to fix PHP fatal error     'Uncaught TypeError: chdir()'

  - issue Support for Twig 3

  - issue Allow phpmyadmin/twig-i18n-extension ^3.0

  - issue #16201 Trim spaces for integer values in table     search

  - issue #16076 Fixed cannot edit or export TIMESTAMP     column with default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in MySQL >= 8.0.13

  - issue #16226 Fix error 500 after copying a table

  - issue #16222 Fixed can't use the search page when the     table name has special characters

  - issue #16248 Fix zoom search is not performing input     validation on INT columns

  - issue #16248 Fix JavaScript error when typing in INT     fields on zoom search page

  - issue Fix type errors when using saved searches

  - issue #16261 Fix missing headings on modals of 'User     Accounts -> Export'

  - issue #16146 Fixed sorting did not keep the selector of     number of rows

  - issue #16194 Fixed SQL query does not appear in case of     editing view where definer is not you on MySQL 8

  - issue #16255 Fix tinyint(1) shown as INT on Search page

  - issue #16256 Fix 'Warning: error_reporting() has been     disabled for security reasons' on php 7.x

  - issue #15367 Fix 'Change or reconfigure primary server'     link

  - issue #15367 Fix first replica links, start, stop,     ignore links

  - issue #16058 Add 'PMA_single_signon_HMAC_secret' for     signon auths to make special links work and udate     examples

  - issue #16269 Support ReCaptcha v2 checkbox width     '$cfg['CaptchaMethod'] = 'checkbox';'

  - issue #14644 Use Doctum instead of Sami

  - issue #16086 Fix 'Browse' headings shift when scrolling

  - issue #15328 Fix no message after import of zipped     shapefile without php-zip

  - issue #14326 Fix PHP error when exporting without     php-zip

  - issue #16318 Fix Profiling doesn't sum the number of     calls

  - issue #16319 Fixed a Russian translation mistake on     search results total text

  - issue #15634 Only use session_set_cookie_params once on     PHP >= 7.3.0 versions for single signon auth

  - issue #14698 Fixed database named as 'New' (language     variable) causes PHP fatal error

  - issue #16355 Make textareas both sides resizable

  - issue #16366 Fix column definition form not showing     default value

  - issue #16342 Fixed multi-table query     (db_multi_table_query.php) alias show the same alias for     all columns

  - issue #15109 Fixed using ST_GeomFromText + GUI on insert     throws an error

  - issue #16325 Fixed editing Geometry data throws error on     using the GUI

  - issue [security] Fix XSS vulnerability with the     transformation feature (**PMASA-2020-5,     CVE-2020-26934**)

  - issue [security] Fix SQL injection vulnerability with     search feature (**PMASA-2020-6, CVE-2020-26935**)

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.

This update for phpMyAdmin fixes the following issues :

  - phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.9.6

  - CVE-2020-26934: Fixed an XSS relating to the     transformation feature (boo#1177561).

  - CVE-2020-26935: Fixed a SQL injection in     SearchController (boo#1177562).

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
113304	phpMyAdmin 5.0.x < 5.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
113303	phpMyAdmin 4.9.x < 4.9.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	critical
145526	GLSA-202101-35 : phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
144649	phpMyAdmin 4.9.0 < 4.9.6 / 5.0.0 < 5.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2020-5, PMASA-2020-6)	Nessus	CGI abuses	critical
143119	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : phpMyAdmin vulnerabilities (USN-4639-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
142572	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2020-1806)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
141901	Debian DLA-2413-1 : phpmyadmin security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
141880	Fedora 33 : phpMyAdmin (2020-43d8624421)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
141555	Fedora 32 : phpMyAdmin (2020-4e78c86902)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
141554	Fedora 31 : phpMyAdmin (2020-eadda524a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
141507	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2020-1675)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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