🛡️ CVE-2016-6628 — phpmyadmin

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

Description

phpMyAdmin Reflected File Download attack

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An attacker may be able to trigger a user to download a specially crafted malicious SVG file. 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 low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Affected software

CVE-2016-6628 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (from 4.0 up to 4.0.10.17)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 6 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0 4.0.10.17

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