CVE-2006-5116

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.9.1-rc1 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as another user by (1) directly setting a token in the URL though dynamic variable evaluation and (2) unsetting arbitrary variables via the _REQUEST array, related to (a) libraries/common.lib.php, (b) session.inc.php, and (c) url_generating.lib.php. NOTE: the PHP unset function vector is covered by CVE-2006-3017.

5.1

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 2.29% Top 20%

Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/22126	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20253	vdb entry patch
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_072006.130.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-5
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1207	vendor advisory
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1-rc1.tar.gz?download	patch
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-October/001067.html	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/22781	third party advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29301	vdb entry
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1677	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447491/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/23086	third party advisory
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-5116?: CVE-2006-5116 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-5116?: To fix CVE-2006-5116, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-5116 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-5116 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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