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FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- reCaptcha bypass (3904f759-5659-11e5-a207-6805ca0b3d42)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85858

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Synopsis

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

Description

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

This vulnerability allows to complete the reCaptcha test and subsequently perform a brute-force attack to guess user credentials without having to complete further reCaptcha tests.

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since reCaptcha is an additional opt-in security measure.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-4/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c8e1bc5c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85858

File Name: freebsd_pkg_3904f759565911e5a2076805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 9/9/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

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: 9/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6830