Path traversal in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2011-2508

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Path traversal in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2011-2508

Published: July 15, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44887
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2508
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: phpMyAdmin
Affected software:
phpMyAdmin

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in libraries/display_tbl.lib.php in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.1, when a certain MIME transformation feature is enabled,. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a . (dot dot) in a GLOBALS[mime_map][$meta->name][transformation] parameter.


How to mitigate CVE-2011-2508

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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