CVE-2017-18264: Improper Privilege Management

May 1, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

An issue was discovered in libraries/common which allows users who have no password set to log in even if the administrator has set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] to false (which is also the default).

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97211
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18264
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-8/

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