#VU33344 OS Command Injection in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-6631

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#VU33344 OS Command Injection in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-6631

Published: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33344
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6631
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
phpMyAdmin
Software vendor:
phpMyAdmin

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. 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.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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