🛡️ CVE-2016-6622 — phpmyadmin

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

phpMyAdmin DoS Vulnerability

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, 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.

Affected software

CVE-2016-6622 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (from 4.0 up to 4.0.10.17)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 30 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
lists.debian.org (Web)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.phpmyadmin.net (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0 4.0.10.17

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