OS Command Injection in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-6631
Published: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33344
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6631
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
phpMyAdmin
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
Opensuse
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2016-6631
Install updates from vendor's website.
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8, 4.6.4
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.4.15.8-r0
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.4.15.8-r0