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phpMyAdmin Improper Privilege Management

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 24, 2024

Package

composer phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 4.0, < 4.0.10.20
>= 4.7.0-beta1, < 4.7.0
>= 4.4.0, <= 4.4.15.10
>= 4.6.0, <= 4.6.6

Patched versions

4.0.10.20
4.7.0

Description

An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). This can allow the login of users who have no password set even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default). This occurs because some implementations of the PHP substr function return false when given '' as the first argument.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Apr 24, 2024
Last updated Apr 24, 2024

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.216%
(60th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-18264

GHSA ID

GHSA-5868-g58j-vrj5

Source code

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