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phpmyadmin -- Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities

Affected packages
4.5.0 <= phpmyadmin < 4.5.4

Details

VuXML ID 740badcb-c60b-11e5-bf36-6805ca0b3d42
Discovery 2016-01-28
Entry 2016-01-28

The phpMyAdmin development team reports:

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.

We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.

This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive display_errors is set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual for a production server.

References

CVE Name CVE-2016-2042
URL https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-6/