CVE-2016-6614

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. 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/94366

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html

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

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-37

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-11

Updated: 2018-07-08

Type: CWE-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

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

Impact Score: 4

Exploitability Score: 2.2

Severity: MEDIUM