CVE-2016-5739

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% 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-200

Description

The Transformation implementation 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 does not use the no-referrer Content Security Policy (CSP) protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct CSRF attacks by reading an authentication token in a Referer header, related to libraries/Header.php.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
phpMyAdmin: 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4 (+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/91389
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/1e5716cb96d46efc305381ae0da08e73fe340f05
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/2f4950828ec241e8cbdcf13090c2582a6fa620cb
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-28/
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/91389

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