PhpMyAdmin exposure of sensitive information

Posted date 08/03/2022

Importance

3 - Medium

Affected Resources

PhpMyAdmin version 5.1.1 and before.

Description

INCIBE has coordinated the publication of a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, with the internal code INCIBE-2022-0636, which has been discovered by Rafael Pedrero.

CVE-2022-0813 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Solution

This vulnerability has been solved by the phpMyAdmin team in the 5.1.3 version released on 11/02/2022.

Detail

PhpMyAdmin 5.1.1 and before allows an attacker to retrieve potentially sensitive information by creating invalid requests. This affects the lang parameter, the pma_parameter, and the cookie section.

CWE-200: exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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