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CVE-2016-9853

phpMyAdmin path disclosure

5.3 MediumFix available

CVE-2016-9853 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 2.54%, the 85th percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.5.

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 fopen 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

2.54%Unchanged since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
CVE-2016-9853
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV: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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
CVE-2016-9853
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-5201 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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
EUVD-2022-5201
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-rmmf-5xhh-gg27 5.3

phpMyAdmin path disclosure

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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
GHSA-rmmf-5xhh-gg27
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS: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-2016-9853 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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2016-9853
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS: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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
CVE-2016-9853
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS: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-2016-9853 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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9853
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-rmmf-5xhh-gg27 5.3

phpMyAdmin path disclosure

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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
GHSA-rmmf-5xhh-gg27
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS: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
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9853 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 fopen wrapper issue.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9853
CVSS 3.0
5.3 MediumCVSS: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

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.6.0 up to 4.6.5
4.6.5
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Packagist
4.4.0 up to 4.4.15.9
4.4.15.9
phpmyadmin
Alpine:v3.2
before 4.4.15.9-r0
4.4.15.9-r0
phpmyadmin
Alpine:v3.4
before 4.6.5.2-r0
4.6.5.2-r0
phpmyadmin
Debian:12
before 4:4.6.5.1-1
4:4.6.5.1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:13
before 4:4.6.5.1-1
4:4.6.5.1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:14
before 4:4.6.5.1-1
4:4.6.5.1-1
phpmyadmin
Mageia:5
before 4.4.15.9-1.mga5
4.4.15.9-1.mga5
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu: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
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+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
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.6.5.2-1.1
4.6.5.2-1.1

History

History
WhenChangedSources
2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
2026-11-02createdCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

References

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