Name: CVE-2016-5097: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-07-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-5097, CWE-200, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.00551

phpMyAdmin before 4.6.2 places tokens in query strings and does not arrange for them to be stripped before external navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) HTTP requests or (2) server logs.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade phpmyadmin	Jul 30, 2024	Jul 5, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade phpMyAdmin	Dec 10, 2025	May 25, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade dev-db/phpmyadmin.	Oct 30, 2017	Jul 4, 2016
Phpmyadmin	—	Upgrade phpMyAdmin to the latest version	Oct 16, 2019	Jul 5, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade phpmyadmin	Jun 12, 2016	Jun 11, 2016
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Jul 5, 2016

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CVSS Details

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