SB2019010837 - Cross-site request forgery in phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
Published: January 8, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019010837
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19969)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.The weakness exists due to insufficient CSRF protections. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page or URL, trick the victim into visiting it, gain access to the system and perform arbitrary actions.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform harmful SQL operations such as renaming databases, creating new tables/routines, deleting designer pages, adding/deleting users, updating user passwords, killing SQL processes, etc.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.