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CVE-2016-9852

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin: 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.4.0 (+27)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94527
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-63
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94527
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-63

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