phpMyAdmin: Vulnerability in MIME-based transformation system A vulnerability has been found in the MIME-based transformation system of phpMyAdmin, which may allow remote execution of arbitrary commands if PHP's "safe mode" is disabled. phpMyAdmin 2004-10-18 2006-05-22 67409 remote 2.6.0_p2 2.6.0_p2

phpMyAdmin is a popular web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to browse and administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Transformations are a phpMyAdmin feature allowing plug-ins to rewrite the contents of any column seen in phpMyAdmin's Browsing mode, including using insertion of PHP or JavaScript code.

A defect was found in phpMyAdmin's MIME-based transformation system, when used with "external" transformations.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the server with the rights of the HTTP server user.

Enabling PHP safe mode ("safe_mode = On" in php.ini) may serve as a temporary workaround.

All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge sync # emerge -pv ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.0_p2" # emerge ">=dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.0_p2" phpMyAdmin 2.6.0_pl2 Release Announcement Secunia Advisory SA12813 CVE-2004-2630 vorlon078 koon koon