CVE-2016-6617

high

Published 2016-12-11 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.1

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export functionality. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.6.0`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.6.1`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.6.2`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`4.6.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.