Security advisory

{
  "id": "ba4d49cc69f88a043b56013fd54da6b5867ebfb7dd048c111d130fc29eb229ca",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6799",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-6799",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.5. When the AllowArbitraryServer configuration setting is set to true, with the use of a rogue MySQL server, an attacker can read any file on the server that the web server's user can access. This is related to the mysql.allow_local_infile PHP configuration, and the inadvertent ignoring of \"options(MYSQLI_OPT_LOCAL_INFILE\" calls.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-6799",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-6799",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-6799",
        "GHSA-c8wj-q36q-3wg4"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6da64cc3b2ba4439574f914f51e161645375be96"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "56ba19808f020fa8ac63366d450c3928564a91b8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.8.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-6799.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.547190783Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00039.html",
        "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-1/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-6799",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436141,
  "published_at": "2019-01-26T17:29:00.45+00:00"
}