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CVE-2016-2042

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% 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 4.4.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 to (1) libraries/phpseclib/Crypt/AES.php or (2) libraries/phpseclib/Crypt/Rijndael.php, 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: 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5 (+21)

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-2016-6.php
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/5a3de108f26e4b0dddadddbe8ccdb1dd5526771f
• 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-2016-6.php
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/5a3de108f26e4b0dddadddbe8ccdb1dd5526771f

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