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PMASA-2016-1

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-1

Date: 2016-01-23

Summary

Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities.

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 4.0.10.13), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.13 or newer, 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-2038

CWE IDs: CWE-661 CWE-200

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.

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