CVE-2016-6613 phpMyAdmin Local file exposure through symlinks with UploadDir

What is CVE-2016-6613?

CVE-2016-6613 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin, published on 11 Dec 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6613?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. It affects 1 product.

Products include Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6613?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to a fixed version for your release line: 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8 or 4.6.4.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2016-6613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin

• CVE-2008-7251 Misconfiguration in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-7252 phpMyAdmin unsafely handles temporary files Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-0203 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-1147 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-22452 phpmyadmin contains SQL Injection vulnerability Critical 9.8

All Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-6613, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6613, GHSA-6j2v-g9rg-qcm5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6613.