CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6614

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2016-12-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• 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 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.4.2 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.5 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.6 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.7 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.8 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.9 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.1 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.2 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.3 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.4 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.5 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.6 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.7 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.8 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.9 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.10 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.11 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.12 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.13 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.14 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.15 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.0.10.16 • 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 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.8 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.9 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.10 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.11 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.12 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.13 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.13.1 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.14 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.14.1 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.1 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.2 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.3 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.4 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.5 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.6 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References