CVE-2016-6618
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.76%phpMyAdmin Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. The transformation feature allows a user to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the server. 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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4.4.15.8-r0
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.6, < 4.6.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6618
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6618
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6618
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/composer
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-41
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95047