CVE-2016-9860
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.71%phpMyAdmin Denial of Service (DoS)
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 5/7/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user can execute a denial of service attack when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4.4.15.9-r0
- Debian/phpmyadminfrom 0, < 4:4.6.5.1-1
- Packagist/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin>= 4.6, < 4.6.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9860
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9860
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9860
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/composer
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
- WEBhttps://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-65
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94525