CVE-2016-6613 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3