vulnerability

phpMyAdmin: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CVE-2016-6631)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-12-10
Added
2017-05-04
Modified
2024-11-27

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.

Solution

phpmyadmin-upgrade-latest
Title
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