CVE-2016-9852
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an...
CVE-2016-9852 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Phpmyadmin, published December 9, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.16%, the 82nd percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin 4.4.15.9-r0.
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
CVE-2016-9852- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
CVE-2016-9852- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-10650 No score
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
EUVD-2016-10650- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r2fq-59w2-3vq4
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an...
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
GHSA-r2fq-59w2-3vq4- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2016-9852
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
ALPINE-CVE-2016-9852- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
CVE-2016-9852- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2016-9852
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9852- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9852
5.3
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin are written to the export file. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) are affected. This CVE is for the curl wrapper issue.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9852- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0416 No score
Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerability
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, when the user does not specify a blowfish_secret key for encrypting cookies, phpMyAdmin generates one at runtime. A vulnerability was reported where the way this value is created using a weak algorithm. This could allow an attacker to determine the user's blowfish_secret and potentially decrypt their cookies (CVE-2016-9847).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, phpinfo.php shows PHP information including values of sensitive HttpOnly cookies (CVE-2016-9848).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, it is possible to bypass AllowRoot restriction ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']) and deny rules for username by using Null Byte in the username (CVE-2016-9849).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, a vulnerability in username matching for the allow/deny rules may result in wrong matches and detection of the username in the rule due to non-constant execution time (CVE-2016-9850).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, with a crafted request parameter value it is possible to bypass the logout timeout (CVE-2016-9851).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, 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. During an execution timeout in the export functionality, the errors containing the full path of the directory of phpMyAdmin is written to the export file (CVE-2016-9852, CVE-2016-9853, CVE-2016-9854, CVE-2016-9855).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, several XSS vulnerabilities have been reported, including an improper fix for PMASA-2016-10 and a weakness in a regular expression using in some JavaScript processing (CVE-2016-9856, CVE-2016-9857).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, with a crafted request parameter value it is possible to initiate a denial of service attack in saved searches feature (CVE-2016-9858).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, with a crafted request parameter value it is possible to initiate a denial of service attack in import feature (CVE-2016-9859).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, an unauthenticated user can execute a denial of service attack when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true; (CVE-2016-9860).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, due to the limitation in URL matching, it was possible to bypass the URL white-list protection (CVE-2016-9861).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, with a crafted username or a table name, it was possible to inject SQL statements in the tracking functionality that would run with the privileges of the control user. This gives read and write access to the tables of the configuration storage database, and if the control user has the necessary privileges, read access to some tables of the mysql database (CVE-2016-9864).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, due to a bug in serialized string parsing, it was possible to bypass the protection offered by PMA_safeUnserialize() function (CVE-2016-9865).
In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.9, when the arg_separator is different from its default value of &, the token was not properly stripped from the return URL of the preference import action (CVE-2016-9866).
- Record
MGASA-2016-0416- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1 No score
phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
phpmyadminAlpine:v3.2 |
before 4.4.15.9-r0 | 4.4.15.9-r0 |
phpmyadminAlpine:v3.4 |
before 4.6.5.2-r0 | 4.6.5.2-r0 |
phpmyadminDebian:12 |
before 4:4.6.5.1-1 | 4:4.6.5.1-1 |
phpmyadminDebian:13 |
before 4:4.6.5.1-1 | 4:4.6.5.1-1 |
phpmyadminDebian:14 |
before 4:4.6.5.1-1 | 4:4.6.5.1-1 |
phpmyadminMageia:5 |
before 4.4.15.9-1.mga5 | 4.4.15.9-1.mga5 |
phpmyadminUbuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3 Show 13 moreShow less4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm54:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6 |
None known |
phpMyAdminopenSUSE:Tumbleweed |
before 4.6.5.2-1.1 | 4.6.5.2-1.1 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-63
securityfocus.com/bid/94527
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9852
github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2fq-59w2-3vq4
security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9852
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security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9852
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0416.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19841
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-58
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-59
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-60
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-61
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-62
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-64
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-65
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-66
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-69
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-70
phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-71
phpmyadmin.net/files/4.4.15.9
phpmyadmin.net/news/2016/11/25/phpmyadmin-401018-44159-and-465-are-released
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9852
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9852
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4107
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4634
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4780
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4782
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4219
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4345
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5339
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5368
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1937
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3238
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3239
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3240
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3241
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3242
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4729
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4995
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4996
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4997
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4998
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4999
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5000
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5001
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5002
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5003
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5029
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1879
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4348
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4349
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4954
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4955
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4986
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4987
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5273
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5274
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6300
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7217
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8326
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8958
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8959
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8960
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8961
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9218
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9219
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2206
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3902
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3903
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6830
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7873
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8669
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1927
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2038
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2039
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2040
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2041
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2042
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2043
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2044
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2045
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2559
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2560
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2561
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2562
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5097
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5099
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5701
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5702
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5703
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5704
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5705
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5706
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5730
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5731
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5732
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5733
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5734
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5739
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6606
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6607
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6608
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6609
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6610
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6611
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6612
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6613
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6614
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6615
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6616
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6617
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6618
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6619
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6620
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6621
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6622
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6623
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6624
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6625
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6626
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6627
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6628
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6629
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6630
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6631
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6632
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6633
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9847
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9848
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9849
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9850
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9851
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9852
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9853
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9854
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9855
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9856
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9857
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9858
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9859
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9860
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9861
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9862
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9863
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9864
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9865
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9866