PMASA-2016-23
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-23
Date: 2016-06-23
Summary
Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities
Description
This PMASA contains information on multiple full-path disclosure vulnerabilities reported in phpMyAdmin.
By specially crafting requests in the following areas, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed.
- Setup script
- Example OpenID authentication script
Severity
We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.
Mitigation factor
To mitigate these issues, it is possible to remove the setup script and examples subdirectories: ./setup/ and ./examples/
Affected Versions
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.3), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.7), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7, or 4.0.10.16 or newer or apply patches listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-5730
CWE IDs: CWE-661
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 4.6 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.