OS Command Injection Affecting phpmyadmin package, versions <4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.75% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PHPMYADMIN-417370
  • published11 Dec 2016
  • disclosed11 Dec 2016

Introduced: 11 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 phpmyadmin to version 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.