libraries/config/messages.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.12, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.2, and 4.5.x before 4.5.3.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request, which reveals the full path in an error message.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - libraries/config/messages.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.12, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.2, and 4.5.x     before 4.5.3.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request, which     reveals the full path in an error message. (CVE-2015-8669)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to its self-reported version, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.0.x prior to 4.0.10.12, 4.4.x prior to 4.4.15.2, or 4.5.x prior to 4.5.3.1. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability:

  - libraries/config/messages.inc.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.12, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.2, and 4.5.x     before 4.5.3.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request, which     reveals the full path in an error message. (CVE-2015-8669)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

phpMyAdmin was updated to 4.4.15.2 to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2015-8669: It was possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to     display a PHP error message which contains the full path     of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed     (boo#960282)

The following bug was fixed :

  - boo#960854: dependency of php-json was missing

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

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.

We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.

This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive display_errors is set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual for a production server.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254354	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8669	Nessus	Misc.	medium
144641	phpMyAdmin 4.0.0 < 4.0.10.12 / 4.4.0 < 4.4.15.2 / 4.5.0 < 4.5.3.1 Information Disclosure (PMASA-2015-6)	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium
88114	openSUSE Security Update : phpMyAdmin (openSUSE-2016-13)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
87614	FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- path disclosure vulnerability (88f75070-abcf-11e5-83d3-6805ca0b3d42)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-8669

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Tenable Plugins

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