Medium severity · published Jan 26, 2019
CVE-2019-6799
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5
5.9
CVSS
14.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. When the AllowArbitraryServer configuration setting is set to true, with the use of a rogue MySQL server, an attacker can read any file on the server that the web server's user can access. This is related to the mysql.allow_local_infile PHP configuration, and the inadvertent ignoring of "options(MYSQLI_OPT_LOCAL_INFILE" calls.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)14.8% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
PH
Phpmyadmin · Phpmyadmin
4.0.0 through 4.8.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6799
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6799
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106736
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00039.html
Mitigation
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-1/
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