CVE-2019-6799: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 14.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin: from 4.0.0, up to and including 4.8.4

Published 2019-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.