CVE-2014-8959

medium
Published 2014-11-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/gis/GIS_Factory.class.php in the GIS editor in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.6, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.12 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a crafted geometry-type parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8959

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-14.php

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.2.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.2.12-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.11

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.