Several vulnerabilities in extension phpMyAdmin (phpmyadmin)
It has been discovered that the extension phpMyAdmin (phpmyadmin) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting, Local File Inclusion, Code Execution and Session Manipulation.
Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default installation.
Affected Versions: Version 4.11.2 and below
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting, Local File Inclusion, Code Execution, Session Manipulation
Severity: High
Suggested CVSS v2.0: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C (What's that?)
References: PMASA-2011-9, PMASA-2011-10, PMASA-2011-11, PMASA-2011-12
Release Date: 25.07.2011
Problem Description:
The attacker must trick the victim into clicking a link that reaches phpMyAdmin's table print view script; one of the link's parameters is a crafted table name (the name containing Javascript code).
Via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter, an attacker can perform a local file inclusion.
In the 'relational schema' code a parameter was not sanitized before being used to concatenate a class name.
It was possible to manipulate the PHP session superglobal using some of the Swekey authentication code. This is very similar to PMASA-2011-5 (TYPO3-SA-2011-008).
Solution: An updated version 4.11.3 is available from the TYPO3 extension manager and attypo3.org/extensions/repository/view/phpmyadmin/4.11.3/. Users of the extension are advised to update the extension as soon as possible.
The TYPO3 Security Team requests TYPO3 administrators to consider our advice from TYPO3-SA-2009-015 to either use extension phpMyAdmin only on development servers or to use the phpMyAdmin standalone application on production servers.
Credits: Thanks to Andreas Beutel for providing a TYPO3 extension package with an updated phpMyAdmin version.
General advice: Follow the recommendations that are given in the TYPO3 Security Cookbook. Please subscribe to thetypo3-announce mailing list to receive future Security Bulletins via E-mail.