CVE-2016-2562

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The checkHTTP function in libraries/Config.class.php in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 does not verify X.509 certificates from api.github.com SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof these servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 4.5.0, 4.5.0-beta1, 4.5.0-beta2, 4.5.0-rc1, 4.5.0.1, 4.5.0.2 (+7)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/e42b7e3aedd29dd0f7a48575f20bfc5aca0ff976
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-13/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178562.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178869.html
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/e42b7e3aedd29dd0f7a48575f20bfc5aca0ff976
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-13/

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