PMASA-2016-63
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-63
Date: 2016-11-25
Updated: 2016-12-06
Summary
Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities
Description
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 is written to the export file.
Severity
We consider these vulnerability to be non-critical.
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5, 4.4.15.9, or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-9852 CVE-2016-9853 CVE-2016-9854 CVE-2016-9855
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.