Local file exposure

PMASA-2016-35

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-35

Date: 2016-07-12

Summary

Local file exposure

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where a user can exploit the LOAD LOCAL INFILE functionality to expose files on the server to the database system.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

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

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6612

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• d03954b

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• d02d61a

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• 1e6b740

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.