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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-j8mx-x32r-5rf4)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432897

Description

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

 - An XSS issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin because of an improper fix for CVE-2016-2559 in PMASA-2016-10.
 This issue is resolved by using a copy of a hash to avoid a race condition. 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-2016-9856)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j8mx-x32r-5rf4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432897

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

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:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 11/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9856

BID: 94530

cwe: CWE-79