CVE-2016-6622

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95049

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html

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

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-45

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-11

Updated: 2018-07-08

Type: CWE-399

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.2

Severity: MEDIUM