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CVE-2016-2038

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.13, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request, which reveals the full path in an error message.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.1, 4.0.10, 4.0.10.1 (+39)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176739.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00028.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00049.html
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2016-1.php
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/447c88f4884fe30a25d38c331c31d820a19f8c93
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/5aee5035646c4fc617564cb0d3d58c0435d64d81
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/76b10187c38634a29d6780f99f6dcd796191073b
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/85ccdbb5b9c6c7a9830e5cb468662837a59a7aa3
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/d4b9c22c1f8465bda5b6a83dc7e2cf59c3fe44e1
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f83b52737e321005959497d8e8f59f8aaedc9048
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176483.html

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