PMASA-2015-6
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2015-6
Date: 2015-12-25
Summary
Full path disclosure vulnerability
Description
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.
Severity
We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.
Mitigation factor
This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive display_errors is set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual for a production server.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.12), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.2) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.3.1) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.12 or newer, 4.4.15.2 or newer, 4.5.3.1 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Do9gy of Tencent Security for reporting this issue.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2015-8669
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.