CVE-2016-6630

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. 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.

References

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-53

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92501

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-11

Updated: 2017-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium