CVE-2016-6629

CRITICAL

phpMyAdmin <4.6.4, <4.4.15.8, <4.0.10.17 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the $cfg['ArbitraryServerRegexp'] configuration directive. An attacker could reuse certain cookie values in a way of bypassing the servers defined by ArbitraryServerRegexp. 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.

References (3)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92493

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-52

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0043

EPSS Percentile 62.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-254

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Dec 11, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026