Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package phpmyadmin  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PHPMYADMIN-663091
  • published11 Dec 2016
  • disclosed11 Dec 2016

Introduced: 11 Dec 2016

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the user does not specify a blowfish_secret key for encrypting cookies, phpMyAdmin generates one at runtime. A vulnerability was reported where the way this value is created uses a weak algorithm. This could allow an attacker to determine the user's blowfish_secret and potentially decrypt their cookies. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.