Arbitrary File Read Affecting phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin package, versions >=4.0.0, <4.8.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    11.9% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-PHPMYADMINPHPMYADMIN-73617
  • published 26 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 26 Jan 2019
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to version 4.8.5 or higher.

Overview

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin is a web interface for MySQL and MariaDB.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read. An attacker could read any file on the server that the web server's user could access.

Note This vulnerability is exploitable only when the AllowArbitraryServer configuration set to true.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High