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GLSA-200504-08 : phpMyAdmin: XSS vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18013

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200504-08 (phpMyAdmin: XSS vulnerability)

 Oriol Torrent Santiago has discovered that phpMyAdmin fails to validate input to the 'convcharset' variable, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
 Impact :

 By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker can inject and execute malicious script code, potentially compromising the victim's browser.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.2_rc1'

See Also

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2005-3/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200504-08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18013

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200504-08.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 4/12/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0992

GLSA: 200504-08