CVE-2008-1567

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

phpMyAdmin before 2.11.5.1 stores the MySQL (1) username and (2) password, and the (3) Blowfish secret key, in cleartext in a Session file under /tmp, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 4.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8
Opensuse: 10.2, 10.3, 11.0
phpMyAdmin: before 2.11.5.1 — fixed in 2.11.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29588
http://secunia.com/advisories/29613
http://secunia.com/advisories/29964
http://secunia.com/advisories/30816
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
http://secunia.com/advisories/33822
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1909711&group_id=23067&atid=377408
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1557
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:131
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-2

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