Name | CVE-2008-3457 |
Description | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted setup arguments. NOTE: this issue can only be exploited in limited scenarios in which the attacker must be able to modify config/config.inc.php. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1641-1 |
NVD severity | low |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
phpmyadmin (PTS) | stretch | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u1 | fixed |
stretch (security) | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2 | fixed | |
bullseye, sid | 4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
phpmyadmin | source | etch | 4:2.9.1.1-8 | DSA-1641-1 | ||
phpmyadmin | source | (unstable) | 4:2.11.8~rc1-1 |
if an attacker can write arbitrary content to config/config.php you have way more problems than this XSS
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2008-6/
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/6a5e53c31bcbcadcb5d16cffaa3b9af181b26296 (2.11 branch)
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0bfb27fb0538f43e9c49b6a183b767c2bed1524d