Security Features in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-6629
Published: December 11, 2016 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33626
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6629
CWE-ID: CWE-254
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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.
Affected software
phpMyAdmin
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
Opensuse
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2016-6629
Install update from vendor's website.
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.4.15.8-r0