Check Point Advisories

phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2019-12616)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2019-0750
Date Published:	19 Jun 2019
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Wednesday 19 June, 2019
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2019-12616
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?	phpMyAdmin 4.8
Vulnerability Description	A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in phpMyAdmin. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target authenticated user to visit a specially crafted page.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2019-12616) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2019-12616)