FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- XSS and DoS vulnerabilities (c9c46fbf-7b83-11e4-a96e-6805ca0b3d42)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79734

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79734

File Name: freebsd_pkg_c9c46fbf7b8311e4a96e6805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 12/5/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9218, CVE-2014-9219

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