CVE-2016-9855

MEDIUM

Phpmyadmin - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

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 PMA_shutdownDuringExport issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0072
EPSS Percentile 72.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-200
Status draft

Affected Products (33)

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
... and 18 more

Timeline

Published Dec 11, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026