CVE-2014-8959

medium
Published 2014-11-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in libraries/gis/GIS_Factory.class.php in the GIS editor in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.6, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7, and 4.2.x before 4.2.12 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a crafted geometry-type parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12.3 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4:4.2.12-1
sid Fixed 4:4.2.12-1
bullseye Fixed 4:4.2.12-1
bookworm Fixed 4:4.2.12-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.1.14.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.7.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.8.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.2.11

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.