Comment # 22 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-35/

PMASA-2016-35

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-35

Date: 2016-07-12
Summary

Local file exposure
Description

A vulnerability was discovered where a user can exploit the LOAD LOCAL INFILE
functionality to expose files on the server to the database system.
Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
Affected Versions

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
Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch
listed below.
References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6612

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

    d03954b

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

    d02d61a

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

    1e6b740