Medium severity · published Dec 11, 2016
CVE-2016-9854
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin
5.3
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 json_decode issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
Phpmyadmin · Phpmyadmin
4.4.0; 4.4.1; 4.4.1.1; 4.4.2; 4.4.3; 4.4.4; +27 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9854
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9854
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94527
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
Patch
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-63
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