CVE-2014-6300 (published 2014-11-08T11:55Z)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the micro history implementation in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.3, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.4, and 4.2.x before 4.2.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and consequently conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack to create a root account, via a crafted URL, related to js/ajax.js.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-79
cwe_name: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
description: The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
extended_description: 
            Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities occur when:
            
               Untrusted data enters a web application, typically from a web request.
               The web application dynamically generates a web page that contains this untrusted data.
               During page generation, the application does not prevent the data from containing content that is executable by a web browser, such as JavaScript, HTML tags, HTML attributes, mouse events, Flash, ActiveX, etc.
               A victim visits the generated web page through a web browser, which contains malicious script that was injected using the untrusted data.
               Since the script comes from a web page that was sent by the web server, the victim's web browser executes the malicious script in the context of the web server's domain.
               This effectively violates the intention of the web browser's same-origin policy, which states that scripts in one domain should not be able to access resources or run code in a different domain.
            
            There are three main kinds of XSS:
            
               
                  Type 1: Reflected XSS (or Non-Persistent) - 
         			The server reads data directly from the HTTP request and reflects it back in the HTTP response. Reflected XSS exploits occur when an attacker causes a victim to supply dangerous content to a vulnerable web application, which is then reflected back to the victim and executed by the web browser. The most common mechanism for delivering malicious content is to include it as a parameter in a URL that is posted publicly or e-mailed directly to the victim. URLs constructed in this manner constitute the core of many phishing schemes, whereby an attacker convinces a victim to visit a URL that refers to a vulnerable site. After the site reflects the attacker's content back to the victim, the content is executed by the victim's browser.
               
                  Type 2: Stored XSS (or Persistent) - 
               The application stores dangerous data in a database, message forum, visitor log, or other trusted data store. At a later time, the dangerous data is subsequently read back into the application and included in dynamic content. From an attacker's perspective, the optimal place to inject malicious content is in an area that is displayed to either many users or particularly interesting users. Interesting users typically have elevated privileges in the application or interact with sensitive data that is valuable to the attacker. If one of these users executes malicious content, the attacker may be able to perform privileged operations on behalf of the user or gain access to sensitive data belonging to the user. For example, the attacker might inject XSS into a log message, which might not be handled properly when an administrator views the logs.
            
               
                  Type 0: DOM-Based XSS - 
               In DOM-based XSS, the client performs the injection of XSS into the page; in the other types, the server performs the injection. DOM-based XSS generally involves server-controlled, trusted script that is sent to the client, such as Javascript that performs sanity checks on a form before the user submits it. If the server-supplied script processes user-supplied data and then injects it back into the web page (such as with dynamic HTML), then DOM-based XSS is possible.
            
            
            Once the malicious script is injected, the attacker can perform a variety of malicious activities. The attacker could transfer private information, such as cookies that may include session information, from the victim's machine to the attacker. The attacker could send malicious requests to a web site on behalf of the victim, which could be especially dangerous to the site if the victim has administrator privileges to manage that site. Phishing attacks could be used to emulate trusted web sites and trick the victim into entering a password, allowing the attacker to compromise the victim's account on that web site. Finally, the script could exploit a vulnerability in the web browser itself possibly taking over the victim's machine, sometimes referred to as "drive-by hacking."
            In many cases, the attack can be launched without the victim even being aware of it. Even with careful users, attackers frequently use a variety of methods to encode the malicious portion of the attack, such as URL encoding or Unicode, so the request looks less suspicious.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
author: Marc Delisle
author_date: 2014-09-13 09:57:22-04:00
msg: bug #4530 [security] DOM based XSS that results to a CSRF that creates a ROOT account in certain conditions

Signed-off-by: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
repo_name: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
description: A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB
repo_language: PHP
owner: phpmyadmin
file_changes: filename: ChangeLog
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 ======================
 
+4.2.8.1 (not yet released)
+- bug #4530 [security] DOM based XSS that results to a CSRF that creates a
+            ROOT account in certain conditions
+
 4.2.8.0 (2014-08-31)
 - bug #4516 Odd export behavior
 - bug #4519 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'success' of null

programming_language: Markdown
filename: ajax.js
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -783,9 +783,16 @@ AJAX.setUrlHash = (function (jQuery, window) {
     if (window.location.hash.substring(0, 8) == '#PMAURL-') {
         // We have a valid hash, let's redirect the user
         // to the page that it's pointing to
-        window.location = window.location.hash.substring(
-            window.location.hash.indexOf(':') + 1
-        );
+        var colon_position = window.location.hash.indexOf(':');
+        var questionmark_position = window.location.hash.indexOf('?');
+        if (colon_position != -1 && questionmark_position != -1 && colon_position < questionmark_position) {
+            var hash_url = window.location.hash.substring(colon_position + 1, questionmark_position);
+            if (PMA_gotoWhitelist.indexOf(hash_url) != -1) {
+                window.location = window.location.hash.substring(
+                    colon_position + 1
+                );
+            }
+        }
     } else {
         // We don't have a valid hash, so we'll set it up
         // when the page finishes loading

programming_language: JavaScript
filename: whitelist.php
change_type: ModificationType.ADD
diff: @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+/* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */
+/**
+ * Exporting of $goto_whitelist from PHP to Javascript
+ *
+ * @package PhpMyAdmin
+ */
+
+chdir('..');
+
+// Send correct type:
+header('Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8');
+
+// Cache output in client - the nocache query parameter makes sure that this
+// file is reloaded when config changes
+header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time() + 3600) . ' GMT');
+
+// Avoid loading the full common.inc.php because this would add many
+// non-js-compatible stuff like DOCTYPE
+define('PMA_MINIMUM_COMMON', true);
+require_once './libraries/common.inc.php';
+// Close session early as we won't write anything there
+session_write_close();
+
+echo "var PMA_gotoWhitelist = new Array();\n";
+$i = -1;
+foreach ($GLOBALS['goto_whitelist'] as $one_whitelist) {
+    $i++;
+    echo 'PMA_gotoWhitelist[' . $i . ']="' . $one_whitelist . '";' . "\n";
+}
+?>

programming_language: PHP
filename: Header.class.php
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -144,7 +144,15 @@ public function __construct()
      */
     private function _addDefaultScripts()
     {
+        // Localised strings
+        $params = array('lang' => $GLOBALS['lang']);
+        if (isset($GLOBALS['db'])) {
+            $params['db'] = $GLOBALS['db'];
+        }
         $this->_scripts->addFile('jquery/jquery-1.8.3.min.js');
+        $this->_scripts->addFile(
+            'whitelist.php' . PMA_URL_getCommon($params), false, true
+        );
         $this->_scripts->addFile('ajax.js');
         $this->_scripts->addFile('keyhandler.js');
         $this->_scripts->addFile('jquery/jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.js');
@@ -171,11 +179,6 @@ private function _addDefaultScripts()
         // Here would not be a good place to add CodeMirror because
         // the user preferences have not been merged at this point
 
-        // Localised strings
-        $params = array('lang' => $GLOBALS['lang']);
-        if (isset($GLOBALS['db'])) {
-            $params['db'] = $GLOBALS['db'];
-        }
         $this->_scripts->addFile('messages.php' . PMA_URL_getCommon($params));
         // Append the theme id to this url to invalidate
         // the cache on a theme change. Though this might be

programming_language: PHP
filename: Scripts.class.php
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -50,12 +50,18 @@ class PMA_Scripts
      */
     private function _includeFiles($files)
     {
+        $first_dynamic_scripts = "";
         $dynamic_scripts = "";
         $scripts = array();
         foreach ($files as $value) {
             if (strpos($value['filename'], "?") !== false) {
-                $dynamic_scripts .= "<script type='text/javascript' src='js/"
-                    . $value['filename'] . "'></script>";
+                if ($value['before_statics'] === true) {
+                    $first_dynamic_scripts .= "<script type='text/javascript' src='js/"
+                        . $value['filename'] . "'></script>";
+                } else {
+                    $dynamic_scripts .= "<script type='text/javascript' src='js/"
+                        . $value['filename'] . "'></script>";
+                }
                 continue;
             }
             $include = true;
@@ -83,7 +89,7 @@ private function _includeFiles($files)
             '<script type="text/javascript" src="%s"></script>',
             htmlspecialchars($url)
         );
-        return $static_scripts . $dynamic_scripts;
+        return $first_dynamic_scripts . $static_scripts . $dynamic_scripts;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -105,10 +111,12 @@ public function __construct()
      * @param string $filename       The name of the file to include
      * @param bool   $conditional_ie Whether to wrap the script tag in
      *                               conditional comments for IE
+     * @param bool   $before_statics Whether this dynamic script should be
+     *                               included before the static ones
      *
      * @return void
      */
-    public function addFile($filename, $conditional_ie = false)
+    public function addFile($filename, $conditional_ie = false, $before_statics = false)
     {
         $hash = md5($filename);
         if (!empty($this->_files[$hash])) {
@@ -119,7 +127,8 @@ public function addFile($filename, $conditional_ie = false)
         $this->_files[$hash] = array(
             'has_onload' => $has_onload,
             'filename' => $filename,
-            'conditional_ie' => $conditional_ie
+            'conditional_ie' => $conditional_ie,
+            'before_statics' => $before_statics
         );
     }
 

programming_language: PHP