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CVE-2016-5098
Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/error_report.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2-prerelease allows remote attackers to…
Medium5.3EPSS 2.0%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/error_report.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2-prerelease allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by triggering an error.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/d2dc9481d2af25b035778c67eaf0bfd2d2c59dd8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1556 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1035980 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-32 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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