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CVE-2014-8961

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/error_report.lib.php in the error-reporting feature in phpMyAdmin 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7 and 4.2.x before 4.2.12 allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information about a file's line count via a crafted parameter.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
• phpMyAdmin: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+29)

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-2014-16.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71245
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b99b6b6672ff2419f05b05740c80c7a23c1da994
• 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-2014-16.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71245
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b99b6b6672ff2419f05b05740c80c7a23c1da994
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03

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