CVE-2015-2206

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

libraries/select_lang.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.9, 4.2.x before 4.2.13.2, and 4.3.x before 4.3.11.1 includes invalid language values in unknown-language error responses that contain a CSRF token and may be sent with HTTP compression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct a BREACH attack and determine this token via a series of crafted requests.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21, 22
phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 (+48)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151331.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151914.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151931.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00008.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3382
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:186
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2015-1.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72949
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031871
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b2f1e895038a5700bf8e81fb9a5da36cbdea0eeb
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151331.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151914.html

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