CVE-2016-6629
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.98%phpMyAdmin Authentication Bypass
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
Description
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.
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 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6629
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6629
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6629
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210725054025/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92493
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-52