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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-qf3f-7x69-qfv3)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434265

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 is able to execute a denial-of-service
 (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with
 $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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-2016-6622)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qf3f-7x69-qfv3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434265

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 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-2016-6622

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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6622

BID: 95049