CVE-2016-6614

Name	CVE-2016-6614
Description	An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1415-1, DLA-626-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
phpmyadmin (PTS)	bullseye	4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	4:5.2.1+dfsg-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4:5.2.2-really5.2.2+20241130+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
phpmyadmin	source	wheezy	4:3.4.11.1-2+deb7u6	DLA-626-1
phpmyadmin	source	jessie	4:4.2.12-2+deb8u3	DLA-1415-1
phpmyadmin	source	(unstable)	4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-37/