Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5098
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 09:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-5098
Complete source record
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