Bug 870012 (CVE-2012-5368)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5368 phpMyAdmin: Obtaining current phpMyAdmin version from non SSL site is prone to MITM attack (PMASA-2012-7)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-25 11:09:57 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5368 to the following vulnerability:

phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.3 uses JavaScript code that is obtained through an HTTP session to phpmyadmin.net without SSL, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by modifying this code.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5368
[2] http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2012-7.php
[3] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/50edafc0884aa15d0a1aa178089ac6a1ad2eb18a
[4] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/a547f3d3e2cf36c6a904fa3e053fd8bddd3fbbb0

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-25 11:12:12 UTC

The following updates have been created to correct this issue in phpMyAdmin package versions, as shipped with Fedora and Fedora EPEL:
1) phpMyAdmin-3.5.3-1.fc17 for Fedora 17,
2) phpMyAdmin-3.5.3-1.fc16 for Fedora 16,
3) phpMyAdmin-3.5.3-1.el6 for Fedora EPEL 6
4) phpMyAdmin3-3.5.3-1.el5 for Fedora EPEL 5.

This issue did NOT affect the version of the phpMyAdmin package (2.X based) as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5.