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Fedora 20 : phpMyAdmin-4.2.8.1-2.fc20 (2014-10981)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77872

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.2.8.1 (2014-09-13) ===============================

 - [security] DOM based XSS that results to a CSRF that creates a ROOT account in certain conditions

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.

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141635

http://www.nessus.org/u?601dc179

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77872

File Name: fedora_2014-10981.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6300

BID: 69790

FEDORA: 2014-10981