CVE-2016-5706

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

js/get_scripts.js.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large array in the scripts parameter.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
phpMyAdmin: 4.6.0, 4.6.0-alpha1, 4.6.0-rc1, 4.6.0-rc2, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 (+53)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91376
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/4767f24ea4c1e3822ce71a636c341e8ad8d07aa6
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-22/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00113.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00114.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3627
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91376
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/4767f24ea4c1e3822ce71a636c341e8ad8d07aa6

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