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phpMyAdmin -- reCaptcha bypass

Affected packages
4.4.0 <= phpMyAdmin < 4.4.14.1

Details

VuXML ID 3904f759-5659-11e5-a207-6805ca0b3d42
Discovery 2015-09-08
Entry 2015-09-08

The phpMyAdmin development team reports:

This vulnerability allows to complete the reCaptcha test and subsequently perform a brute force attack to guess user credentials without having to complete further reCaptcha tests.

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical since reCaptcha is an additional opt-in security measure.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-6830
URL https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-4/