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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-6610

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

A full path disclosure vulnerability was discovered in phpMyAdmin where a user can trigger a particular error in the export mechanism to discover the full path of phpMyAdmin on the disk. 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.17, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8, and 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4 are affected.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published