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
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.