CVE-2016-6622

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1 (+54)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95049
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-45
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95049
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-45

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