CVE-2016-6613: Information Exposure

December 11, 2016 (updated July 1, 2017)

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/94115
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6613
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-36

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