Cryptographic Issues Affecting phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin package, versions >=4.0.0, <4.0.10.18>=4.4.0, <4.4.15.9>=4.6.0, <4.6.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPMYADMINPHPMYADMIN-5814036
  • published2 Aug 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2016-9847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to version 4.0.10.18, 4.4.15.9, 4.6.5 or higher.

Overview

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin is a web interface for MySQL and MariaDB.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Issues when the user does not specify a blowfish_secret key for encrypting cookies. An attacker can determine the user's blowfish_secret and potentially decrypt their cookies by exploiting the weak algorithm used to create this value.