VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9855

medium
Published 2016-12-11 · 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

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 PMA_shutdownDuringExport issue.

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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.6.5.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.4

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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