CVE-2016-6631

high

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92496

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

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

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-54

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-11

Updated: 2017-07-01

Type: CWE-78

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 6.8

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.6

Severity: HIGH