CVE-2017-18264
An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). This can allow the login of users who have no password set even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default). This occurs because some implementations of the PHP substr function return false when given '' as the first argument.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-05-01
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
Affected products
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97211
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-8/