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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-rv57-479x-x4qv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432910

Description

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

 - phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 does not properly choose
 delimiters to prevent use of the preg_replace e (aka eval) modifier, which might allow remote attackers to
 execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by the table search-and-replace
 implementation. (CVE-2016-5734)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv57-479x-x4qv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432910

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.99

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5734

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2016

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5734

BID: 91387

cwe: CWE-94