CVE-2016-9853
MEDIUMphpMyAdmin 4.6.x < 4.6.5 and 4.4.x < 4.4.15.9 - Sensitive Information Exposure via Error Message
Title source: llmDescription
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the fopen wrapper issue.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-63
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94527
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0115
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (34)
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.0
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.1.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.2
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.3
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.4
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.5
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.6
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.6.1
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
4.4.7
... and 24 more
Published
Dec 11, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026