CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9853

5.3 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])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

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 fopen wrapper issue.

Affected configurations

• 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 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.4.15.8 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.6.0 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.6.1 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.6.2 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.6.3 • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.6.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References