VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9856

medium
Published 2016-12-11 · Modified 2024-02-16
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.1

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin because of an improper fix for CVE-2016-2559 in PMASA-2016-10. This issue is resolved by using a copy of a hash to avoid a race condition. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9856

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-64

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4:4.6.5.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4:4.6.5.1-1

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.6,<4.6.54.6.5
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.4,<4.4.15.94.4.15.9
php Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>=4.0,<4.0.10.184.0.10.18

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
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
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.0.10.17
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.0
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.1
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.2
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.3
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.6.4
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
phpmyadminphpmyadmin4.4.15.8

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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