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7PK - Security Features

CVE-2016-9850

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. Username matching for the allow/deny rules may result in wrong matches and detection of the username in the rule due to non-constant execution time. All 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10.18, 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.9, and 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.5 are affected.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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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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  • Published