Upstream information

CVE-2016-6631 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 994313 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2016:2168-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:59 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`phpMyAdmin >= 4.6.5.2-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10054

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Aug 18 04:47:23 2016
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 23:06:27 2024