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phpMyAdmin Configuration Manipulation and Code Injection Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA11974  
Release Date: 2004-06-30
Last Update: 2004-07-02

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:phpMyAdmin 2.x

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Description:
Nasir Simbolon has reported two vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin, allowing malicious people to manipulate certain configuration settings and inject arbitrary code.

1) It is possible to supply new configuration options in "left.php" to an array (e.g. the arrays storing mysql connection configuration details). This could potentially be exploited to access other mysql servers than those specified in the configuration file.

Example:
left.php?server=4&cfg[Servers][4][host]=hostname&cfg[Servers][4][port]=port

2) Certain input passed to an "eval" statement isn't properly filtered, which allows arbitrary PHP code to be injected.

Successful exploitation requires "$cfg['LeftFrameLight']" to bet set to "FALSE" in "config.inc.php".

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.5.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
This has been fixed in version 2.5.7-pl1.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfi...ackage_id=16462&release_id=249882

Provided and/or discovered by:
Nasir Simbolon

Changelog:
2004-07-02: Updated solution.

Original Advisory:
http://eagle.kecapi.com/sec/fd/phpMyAdmin.html



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