National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5718

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 20856

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20856

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22599

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22599

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4298

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4298

External Source: XF

Name: phpmyadmin-utf7-xss(29957)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29957

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061102 Advisory 12/2006: phpMyAdmin - error.php XSS Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/450397/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23086

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23086

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:071

Hyperlink:http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html