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CVE-2016-9855
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-11T02:59:53.960 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:40.667

Summary

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.

Affected products

phpmyadmin — phpmyadmin

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References

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