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phpMyAdmin Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9855 - Vulnerability Database
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phpMyAdmin Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9855

Medium
Reference: CVE-2016-9855
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9855
Title: phpMyAdmin Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Overview:

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 PMA_shutdownDuringExport issue.