CVE-2016-9855 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-9855?

CVE-2016-9855 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin, published on 11 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the PMA_shutdownDuringExport issue.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9855?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9855?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-9855 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9855 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-2016-9855, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9855, GHSA-wcgr-wpcg-82c8, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9855.