SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-567r-vqj7-5cw7)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433540

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the $cfg['ArbitraryServerRegexp'] configuration directive.
An attacker could reuse certain cookie values in a way of bypassing the servers defined by
ArbitraryServerRegexp. 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-2016-6629)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-567r-vqj7-5cw7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433540

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6629

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6629

BID: 92493