Cryptographic Issues Affecting phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin package, versions >=4.0, <4.0.10.13>=4.4, <4.4.15.3>=4.5, <4.5.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPMYADMINPHPMYADMIN-5817185
  • published3 Aug 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2016-1927  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to version 4.0.10.13, 4.4.15.3, 4.5.4 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 suggestPassword function in js/functions.js relies on the Math.random JavaScript function. An attacker can guess passwords via a brute-force approach.