Improper Authentication The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package phpmyadmin  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
98.35% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PHPMYADMIN-605339
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed21 Jun 2018

Introduced: 21 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12613  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Debian.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 4.8.x before 4.8.2, in which an attacker can include (view and potentially execute) files on the server. The vulnerability comes from a portion of code where pages are redirected and loaded within phpMyAdmin, and an improper test for whitelisted pages. An attacker must be authenticated, except in the "$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] = true" case (where an attacker can specify any host he/she is already in control of, and execute arbitrary code on phpMyAdmin) and the "$cfg['ServerDefault'] = 0" case (which bypasses the login requirement and runs the vulnerable code without any authentication).