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phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jun 23, 2016
Created
Jul 25, 2018

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before
4.6.3 does not properly choose delimiters to prevent use of the preg_replace
(aka eval) modifier, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary
PHP code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by the table search-and-replace
implementation.

Authors

Michal Čihař and Cure53
Matteo Cantoni [email protected]

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/phpmyadmin_null_termination_exec
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_null_termination_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_null_termination_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_null_termination_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_null_termination_exec) > exploit
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