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CVE-2017-18264 phpMyAdmin Improper Privilege Management

CriticalCVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.8%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). This can allow the login of users who have no password set even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default). This occurs because some implementations of the PHP substr function return false when given '' as the first argument.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) >= 4.0, < 4.0.10.20 4.0.10.20
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.0 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.1 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.1 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.2 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.3 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.4 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.5 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.6 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.7 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.8 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.10.9 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.2 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.3 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.4 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.4.1 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.4.2 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.5 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.6 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.7 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.8 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) = 4.0.9 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) >= 4.7.0-beta1, < 4.7.0 4.7.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) >= 4.4.0, <= 4.4.15.10 No fix listed
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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin(Packagist) >= 4.6.0, <= 4.6.6 No fix listed
debian/phpmyadmin(Debian:12) < 4:4.6.6-2 4:4.6.6-2
debian/phpmyadmin(Debian:14) < 4:4.6.6-2 4:4.6.6-2
debian/phpmyadmin(Debian:13) < 4:4.6.6-2 4:4.6.6-2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.10.20 4.0.10.20
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin >= 4.4.0, <= 4.4.15.10 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin >= 4.6.0, <= 4.6.6 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin = 4.7.0-beta1 No fix listed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin = 4.7.0-rc1 No fix listed
debian linux = 8.0 No fix listed

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