CVE-2016-6631 — OS Command Injection in Phpmyadmin

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.6%
top 12.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
PhpmyadminDebian Phpmyadmin
Timeline
PublishedDec 11
Latest updateMay 17

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/phpmyadmin< phpmyadmin 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin< 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1+3
▶NVDphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin60 versions+59

Patches

Patch: www.phpmyadmin.net ↗Patch: www.phpmyadmin.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5r36-wxjq-vcfh: An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-6631: An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin↗2016-12-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-6631: phpmyadmin - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code executio...↗2016
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