Security Advisory SA29613 - phpMyAdmin Username/Password Session File Information Disclosure

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Secunia Advisory SA29613

phpMyAdmin Username/Password Session File Information Disclosure

Secunia Advisory

SA29613

Release Date

2008-03-31

Last Update

2008-04-01

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

phpMyAdmin 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-1567 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Jim Hermann has discovered a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information.

The MySQL username, password, and the Blowfish secret key are stored as plain text in session files. This can potentially be exploited e.g. by users on shared hosts to access that information.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.11.5 and reported in all previous versions.

Solution
Update to version 2.11.5.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Jim Hermann

Changelog
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Original Advisory
PMASA-2008-2:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-2

Jim Hermann:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1909711&group_id=23067&atid=377408

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