PT-2011-2794

CVE-2011-0986

Published

2011-02-14

Updated

2022-05-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.0

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions phpMyAdmin versions 2.11.x through 2.11.11.1 phpMyAdmin versions 3.3.x through 3.3.9.0

Description The issue arises from improper handling of missing files, specifically the README, ChangeLog, and LICENSE files. This allows remote attackers to determine the installation path by requesting a nonexistent file.

Recommendations For phpMyAdmin versions 2.11.x through 2.11.11.1, update to version 2.11.11.2 to resolve the issue. For phpMyAdmin versions 3.3.x through 3.3.9.0, update to version 3.3.9.1 to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Mustlive

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (\'Path Traversal\')

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2011-0986