VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6631

high
Published 2016-12-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.1.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.13.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.14.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.4.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.4
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.5
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.6
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.7
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.8
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.9
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.10
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.11
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.12
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.13
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.14
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.15
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.16

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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