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FreeBSD: VID-68611303-149E-11E7-B9BB-6805CA0B3D42: phpMyAdmin -- bypass 'no password' restriction

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FreeBSD: VID-68611303-149E-11E7-B9BB-6805CA0B3D42: phpMyAdmin -- bypass 'no password' restriction

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/28/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/30/2017
Modified
09/19/2017

Description

The phpMyAdmin team reports:

Summary

Bypass $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where the restrictions

caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are

bypassed under certain PHP versions. 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 behavior depends on the PHP version used (it seems

PHP 5 is affected, while PHP 7.0 is not).

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be of moderate severity.

Mitigation factor

Set a password for all users.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-phpmyadmin

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