phpMyAdmin version 2.5.2 has been released today. We believe it addresses all the issues mentionned in the vulnerability report.
( From http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation#faqsecurity ) Last update of this FAQ: 2003-07-22.
The phpMyAdmin development team received notice of this security alert: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/325641.
The team regrets that the author did not communicate with us before sending this alert. However, here is our current reply to the points mentionned:
* "Directory transversal attack"
This problem had been fixed in version 2.5.0, even if the author reports the 2.5.2 development version as vulnerable, which we could not reproduce.
* "Remote local file retrieving"
This is a misleading title, as the author tells in his text: "Note that you can't request files ( only dirs )".
* "Remote internal directory listing"
It was possible to retrieve the list of phpMyAdmin's directory (which we doubt can cause any damage), but we fixed this in the 2.5.2 version.
* "XSS and Path disclosures"
Most of the XSS problems have been fixed in version 2.5.0. The rest have been fixed in the 2.5.2 version.
We believe that the Path disclosures problems have also been fixed in version 2.5.2.
* "Information encoding weakness"
We believe that an exploit for this weakness would be difficult to achieve. However version 2.5.2 now encrypts the password with the well-known blowfish algorithm.
--------------- Marc Delisle, for the team.
