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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2016-9860

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user can execute a denial of service attack when phpMyAdmin is running with "$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true". 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.

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

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published