🛡️ CVE-2016-5706 — phpmyadmin

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

phpMyAdmin Denial Of Service (DOS) attack

js/get_scripts.js.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large array in the scripts parameter.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-5706 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2016-5706 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (from 4.6 up to 4.6.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 23 May 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
www.phpmyadmin.net (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
www.securityfocus.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-05-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6 4.6.3

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