CVE-2016-6613
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.32%phpMyAdmin Local file exposure through symlinks with UploadDir
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4.4.15.8-r0
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.6, < 4.6.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6613
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6613
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6613
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/composer
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-36
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94115