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                               CERT-Renater

                   Note d'Information No. 2015/VULN183
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DATE                : 09/09/2015

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S): /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S): Systems running phpMyAdmin versions 4.3.x,
                          4.4.x prior to 4.3.13.2, 4.4.14.1.

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https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-4/
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PMASA-2015-4

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-4

Date: 2015-09-08

Summary

Vulnerability that allows bypassing the reCaptcha test

Description

This vulnerability allows to complete the reCaptcha test and 
subsequently perform a brute force attack to guess user credentials 
without having to complete further reCaptcha tests.


Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since reCaptcha is an
additional opt-in security measure.


Mitigation factor

This vulnerability only affect installations with reCaptcha test enabled.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.3.x (prior to 4.3.13.2) and 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.14.1) are 
affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.3.13.2 or newer, or 4.4.14.1 or newer or apply 
patch listed below.


References

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2015-6830

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-307


Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.3 branch to fix this issue:

     0314e67900f01410bc8c81c58a40dc0515e3c91d

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

     785f4e2711848eb8945894199d5870253a88584e


More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the
phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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