Check Point Advisories

Web Servers PHPMyAdmin Remote Code Execution (CVE-2016-5734)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2018-0546
Date Published: 19 Jun 2018
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 20 June, 2018
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2016-5734
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16
phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7
phpMyAdmin 4.6.x before 4.6.3
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in PHPMyAdmin. The vulnerability is caused due to incorrect choosing of delimiters to prevent use of the preg_replace function. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow execution of arbitrary PHP code.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Web Servers PHPMyAdmin Remote Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Web Servers PHPMyAdmin Remote Code Execution

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