CVE-2016-6613

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94115

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-36

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-11

Updated: 2017-07-01

Type: CWE-200

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.6

Severity: MEDIUM