CVE-2016-2039 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Remote attackers can bypass access restrictions in phpMyAdmin by predicting weak CSRF tokens, allowing unauthorized actions.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2016-2039?

CVE-2016-2039 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 Feb 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libraries/session.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 does not properly generate CSRF token values, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by predicting a value.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2039?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2039?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2039 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2039 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2039, GHSA-hc8v-m2rw-4fc4, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2039.

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