CVE-2016-5730

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: 2016-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving (1) an array value to FormDisplay.php, (2) incorrect data to validate.php, (3) unexpected data to Validator.php, (4) a missing config directory during setup, or (5) an incorrect OpenID identifier data type, which reveals the full path in an error message.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1 (+53)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91379
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/27664605b945b13e1d2b71adea822ace2099cc96
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/331c560fbfa0e7d2dce674b5e88e983c5f2a451d
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/96e0aa35653ec0c66084a7e9343465e16c1f769b
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/b0180f18c828706af3a6800f0fb01a536d3ef8c7
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cd229d718e8cb4bc8ba32446beaa82d27727b6f0
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-23/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html

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