CVE-2016-5098

medium

Published 2016-07-05 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/error_report.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2-prerelease allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by triggering an error.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
suse	13.1	affected
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.6.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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