CVE-2016-5739 phpMyAdmin vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery

What is CVE-2016-5739?

CVE-2016-5739 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 3 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Transformation implementation in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 does not use the no-referrer Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct CSRF attacks by reading an authentication token in a Referer header, related to libraries/Header.php.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5739?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. It affects 3 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5739?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to a fixed version for your release line: 4.0.10.16, 4.4.15.7 or 4.6.3.

Is CVE-2016-5739 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5739, GHSA-2p7v-jm8m-g3qq, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5739.