Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities

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:

• 6735d83
• ebcd746

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

• 6197613
• cf83d6a

More information

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