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CVE-2014-8959

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/gis/GIS_Factory.class.php in the GIS editor in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.6, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.12 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a crafted geometry-type parameter.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
• phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 (+50)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00017.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:228
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-14.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71247
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/80cd40b6687a6717860d345d6eb55bef2908e961
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00017.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:228
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-14.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71247
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/80cd40b6687a6717860d345d6eb55bef2908e961
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03

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