Resource Exhaustion Affecting phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin package, versions >=4.0.0, <4.0.10.17>=4.4.0, <4.4.15.8>=4.6.0, <4.6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHPMYADMINPHPMYADMIN-6673852
  • published25 Apr 2024
  • disclosed14 May 2022
  • creditEmanuel Bronshtein

Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2016-6618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to version 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8, 4.6.4 or higher.

Overview

phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin is a web interface for MySQL and MariaDB.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion due to the transformation feature. An attacker can trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the server by exploiting this vulnerability.