CVE-2017-18264 Affecting phpmyadmin package, versions <4:4.2.12-2+deb8u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PHPMYADMIN-417316
  • published1 May 2018
  • disclosed1 May 2018

Introduced: 1 May 2018

CVE-2017-18264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 phpmyadmin to version 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.