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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-6j2v-g9rg-qcm5)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432631

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which
 phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user. 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. (CVE-2016-6613)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6j2v-g9rg-qcm5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432631

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6613

BID: 94115

cwe: CWE-200