CVE-2016-6614

MEDIUM

phpMyAdmin <4.6.4, <4.4.15.8, <4.0.10.17 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-37
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94366
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.0111
EPSS Percentile 78.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (50)
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.3
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.3
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.4
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.4.1
... and 40 more
Published Dec 11, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026