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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can inject PHP code in a phpMyAdmin configuration
file, in order to execute it.

Severity: 2/4

Consequences: user access/rights

Provenance: user account

Means of attack: 1 attack

Ability of attacker: technician (2/4)

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)

Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)

Creation date: 16/04/2009

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

– Fedora
– Unix - plateform

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The phpMyAdmin server is used to administer a MySQL database via a
web browser.

The setup/lib/ConfigFile.class.php file generates a configuration
file for a database. This configuration file is written in PHP
language and contains the server name inside a comment:
/* Server: name */

However, if the name is "n*/code;/*", phpMyAdmin generates:
/* Server: n*/code;/* */
Attacker’s code then runs when PHP interprets the configuration
file.

An authenticated attacker can thus inject PHP code in a phpMyAdmin
configuration file, in order to execute it.

CHARACTERISTICS

Identifiers: BID-34526, CVE-2009-1285, FEDORA-2009-3692,
FEDORA-2009-3700, PMASA-2009-4, VIGILANCE-VUL-8641

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/phpMyAdmin-PHP-code-execution-8641