CVE-2016-9855

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.

How to fix CVE-2016-9855

To remediate CVE-2016-9855, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 4.4.15.9-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 4:4.6.5.1-1 or later

Is CVE-2016-9855 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 4.4.15.9-r0
• from 0, < 4:4.6.5.1-1

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9855
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9855