GHSA-9xhq-pm7v-693pMediumCVSS 5.3

phpMyAdmin Cryptographic Vulnerability

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
July 31, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-9847 →

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the user does not specify a blowfish_secret key for encrypting cookies, phpMyAdmin generates one at runtime. A vulnerability was reported where the way this value is created uses a weak algorithm. This could allow an attacker to determine the user's blowfish_secret and potentially decrypt their cookies. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

🎯 Affected products3

  • composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:>= 4.6, < 4.6.5
  • composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:>= 4.4, < 4.4.15.9
  • composer/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:>= 4.0, < 4.0.10.18

🔗 References (5)