SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-3hw5-fffc-qrg4)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432626

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user can execute a denial of service attack when
phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x
versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected. (CVE-2016-9860)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3hw5-fffc-qrg4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432626

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 1/26/2026

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9860

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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: 11/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9860

BID: 94525

cwe: CWE-20