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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-v6fh-vg22-r6cm)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434871

Description

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

 - libraries/plugins/auth/AuthenticationCookie.class.php in phpMyAdmin 4.3.x before 4.3.13.2 and 4.4.x before
 4.4.14.1 allows remote attackers to bypass a multiple-reCaptcha protection mechanism against brute-force
 credential guessing by providing a correct response to a single reCaptcha. (CVE-2015-6830)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v6fh-vg22-r6cm

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434871

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.78

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6830

BID: 76674

cwe: CWE-200