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FreeBSD : phpmyadmin -- Multiple full path disclosure vulnerabilities (740badcb-c60b-11e5-bf36-6805ca0b3d42)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88472

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

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.

We consider these vulnerabilities to be non-critical.

This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive display_errors is set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual for a production server.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-6/

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb32070d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88472

File Name: freebsd_pkg_740badcbc60b11e5bf366805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 1/29/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:phpmyadmin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2042