CVE-2017-18264

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18264
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18264.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18264
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2018-05-01T17:29:00.237Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:24:55.578979Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in libraries/common.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0 before 4.0.10.20, 4.4.x, 4.6.x, and 4.7.0 prereleases. The restrictions caused by $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false are bypassed under certain PHP versions (e.g., version 5). This can allow the login of users who have no password set even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default). This occurs because some implementations of the PHP substr function return false when given '' as the first argument.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Events
Introduced
Fixed
Introduced
Last affected
Introduced
Last affected
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.0.10.20"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.4.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.4.15.10"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.6.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.6.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.7.0-beta1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.7.0-rc1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
RELEASE_4_0_0
RELEASE_4_0_1RC1
RELEASE_4_0_2
RELEASE_4_0_2RC1
RELEASE_4_0_3
RELEASE_4_0_3RC1
RELEASE_4_0_4
RELEASE_4_0_4RC1
RELEASE_4_0_4_1
RELEASE_4_0_4_2
RELEASE_4_0_5RC1
RELEASE_4_0_6
RELEASE_4_0_6RC1
RELEASE_4_0_6RC2
RELEASE_4_1_0ALPHA1
RELEASE_4_1_0ALPHA2
RELEASE_4_1_0BETA1
RELEASE_4_1_0BETA2
RELEASE_4_1_0RC1
RELEASE_4_1_0RC2
RELEASE_4_1_0RC3
RELEASE_4_2_0
RELEASE_4_2_0ALPHA1
RELEASE_4_2_0ALPHA2
RELEASE_4_2_0BETA1
RELEASE_4_2_0RC1
RELEASE_4_2_10
RELEASE_4_2_10_1
RELEASE_4_2_11
RELEASE_4_2_12
RELEASE_4_2_13
RELEASE_4_2_13_1
RELEASE_4_2_7
RELEASE_4_2_7_1
RELEASE_4_2_8
RELEASE_4_2_8_1
RELEASE_4_2_9
RELEASE_4_2_9_1
RELEASE_4_3_0
RELEASE_4_3_0ALPHA1
RELEASE_4_3_0BETA1
RELEASE_4_3_0RC1
RELEASE_4_3_0RC2
RELEASE_4_3_1
RELEASE_4_3_10
RELEASE_4_3_11
RELEASE_4_3_11_1
RELEASE_4_3_12
RELEASE_4_3_13
RELEASE_4_3_2
RELEASE_4_3_3
RELEASE_4_3_4
RELEASE_4_3_5
RELEASE_4_3_6
RELEASE_4_3_7
RELEASE_4_3_8
RELEASE_4_3_9
RELEASE_4_4_0
RELEASE_4_4_0ALPHA1
RELEASE_4_4_1
RELEASE_4_4_10
RELEASE_4_4_11
RELEASE_4_4_12
RELEASE_4_4_13
RELEASE_4_4_13_1
RELEASE_4_4_14
RELEASE_4_4_14_1
RELEASE_4_4_15
RELEASE_4_4_15_1
RELEASE_4_4_15_2
RELEASE_4_4_1_1
RELEASE_4_4_2
RELEASE_4_4_3
RELEASE_4_4_4
RELEASE_4_4_5
RELEASE_4_4_6
RELEASE_4_4_6_1
RELEASE_4_4_7
RELEASE_4_4_8
RELEASE_4_4_9
RELEASE_4_5_0
RELEASE_4_5_0RC1
RELEASE_4_5_0_1
RELEASE_4_5_0_2
RELEASE_4_5_1
RELEASE_4_5_2
RELEASE_4_5_3
RELEASE_4_5_3_1
RELEASE_4_5_4
RELEASE_4_5_4_1
RELEASE_4_5_5
RELEASE_4_5_5_1
RELEASE_4_6_0
RELEASE_4_6_0ALPHA1
RELEASE_4_6_0RC1
RELEASE_4_6_0RC2
RELEASE_4_6_1
RELEASE_4_6_2
RELEASE_4_6_3
RELEASE_4_6_4
RELEASE_4_6_5
RELEASE_4_6_5_1
RELEASE_4_6_5_2
RELEASE_4_6_6

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18264.json"