openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-655)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91405

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

phpMyAdmin was updated to fix one security issue.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

- CVE-2016-5099: Self XSS vulneratbility - A specially crafted attack could allow for special HTML characters to be passed as URL encoded values and displayed back as special characters in the page (boo#982128, PMASA-2016-16)

Solution

Update the affected phpMyAdmin package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982128

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91405

File Name: openSUSE-2016-655.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5099