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7PK - Security Features

CVE-2016-6629

High
9.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving the "$cfg['ArbitraryServerRegexp']" configuration directive. An attacker could reuse certain cookie values in a way of bypassing the servers defined by ArbitraryServerRegexp. 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.17, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8,4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4 are affected.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-254 - Security Features

Security features are integrated into the application infrastructure to protect its resources and the trusted environment against a known exploit, threat, or vulnerability. However, flawed, disabled, or absent security features expose the application to a variety of attacks. This is a multidimensional vulnerability with broad potential impact. It can lead to defacement, confidentiality compromise, system takeover, etc.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published