CVE-2016-6614

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3