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CVE-2016-6619

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can...

8.8 HighFix available

CVE-2016-6619 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Phpmyadmin, published August 31, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.48%, the 73rd percentile. Fixed in phpmyadmin 4.4.15.8-r0.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.48%Up 0.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
CVE-2016-6619
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
6.5 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-89
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
CVE-2016-6619
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-7532 No score

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
EUVD-2016-7532
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-678w-6p5f-47x3 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can...

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
GHSA-678w-6p5f-47x3
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-89
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2016-6619 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2016-6619
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
CVE-2016-6619
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2016-6619 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6619
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-6619 8.8

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the user interface preference feature, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. 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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6619
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0291 No score

Updated phpmyadmin packages fix security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, the decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. The can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password. Also, the same initialization vector (IV) is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same (CVE-2016-6606).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the following areas of phpMyAdmin: Zoom search, GIS editor, Relation view, several Transformations, XML export, MediaWiki export, Designer, when the MySQL server is running with a specially-crafted log_bin directive, Database tab, Replication feature, and Database search (CVE-2016-6607).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was found where a specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature (CVE-2016-6609).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a full path disclosure vulnerability was discovered where a user can trigger a particular error in the export mechanism to discover the full path of phpMyAdmin on the disk (CVE-2016-6610).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was reported where a specially crafted database and/or table name can be used to trigger an SQL injection attack through the export functionality (CVE-2016-6611).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was discovered where a user can exploit the LOAD LOCAL INFILE functionality to expose files on the server to the database system (CVE-2016-6612).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was found where a user can specially craft a symlink on disk, to a file which phpMyAdmin is permitted to read but the user is not, which phpMyAdmin will then expose to the user (CVE-2016-6613).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was reported with the %u username replacement functionality of the SaveDir and UploadDir features. When the username substitution is configured, a specially-crafted user name can be used to circumvent restrictions to traverse the file system (CVE-2016-6614).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, multiple XSS vulnerabilities were found in the following areas: Navigation pane and database/table hiding feature, the "Tracking" feature, and GIS visualization feature (CVE-2016-6615).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was discovered in the following features where a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user: User group Designer (CVE-2016-6616).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was found in the transformation feature allowing a user to trigger a denial-of-service (DOS) attack against the server (CVE-2016-6618).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was discovered in the user interface preference feature where a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user (CVE-2016-6619).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was reported where some data is passed to the PHP unserialize() function without verification that it's valid serialized data. A malicious user may be able to manipulate the stored data in a way to result in code being loaded and executed (CVE-2016-6620).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was discovered where 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; (CVE-2016-6622).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability has been reported where a malicious authorized user can cause a denial-of-service (DOS) attack on a server by passing large values to a loop (CVE-2016-6623).

In phpMyAdmin before 4.4.15.8, a vulnerability was discovered where, under certain circumstances, it may be possible to circumvent the phpMyAdmin IP-based authentication…

Record
MGASA-2016-0291
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1 No score

phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the phpMyAdmin-4.6.5.2-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4843-1 No score

phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly managed input in the form of passwords. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-9218)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of database names in the PHP Array export feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to run arbitrary PHP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6609)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6619)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyadmin failed to properly sanitize input. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-6630)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass AllowRoot restrictions and deny rules for usernames. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9849)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin would allow sensitive information to be leaked when the argument separator in a URL was not the default & value. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain the CSRF token of a user. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-9866)

Isaac Bennetch discovered that phpMyAdmin was incorrectly restricting user access due to the behavior of the substr function on some PHP versions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass login restrictions established for users that have no password set. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18264)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input in the form of parameters sent during a table editing operation. An attacker could use this vulnerability to trigger an endless recursion and cause a denial-of-service (DoS). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000014)

Emanuel Bronshtein discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input used to generate a web page. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute CSS injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000015)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a crafted URL. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-7260)

It was discovered phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled database names. An attacker could possibly use this to trigger a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12581)

Daniel Le Gall discovered that phpMyAdmin would expose sensitive information to unauthorized actors due to an error in its transformation feature. An authenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to leak the contents of a local file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19968)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled user input. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-19970)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin failed to properly sanitize input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute an SQL injection attack via a specially crafted database name. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-11768)

It was discovered that phpMyAdmin incorrectly handled some requests. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a cross…

Record
USN-4843-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
phpmyadmin
Alpine:v3.2
before 4.4.15.8-r0
4.4.15.8-r0
phpmyadmin
Debian:12
before 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:13
before 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:14
before 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Debian:8
before 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u3, plus listed versions
4:4.2.12-24:4.2.12-2+deb8u14:4.2.12-2+deb8u2
4:4.2.12-2+deb8u3
phpmyadmin
Mageia:5
before 4.4.15.8-1.mga5
4.4.15.8-1.mga5
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm4
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, plus listed versions
4:4.0.6-14:4.0.8-14:4.0.9-14:4.0.10-14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm14:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm24:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
before 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6, plus listed versions
4:4.4.13.1-14:4.5.0.2-24:4.5.1-14:4.5.1-24:4.5.1-3
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4:4.5.2-14:4.5.2-24:4.5.3.1-14:4.5.4-14:4.5.4.1-24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.14:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm24:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm34:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm44:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm5
4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm6
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
before 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.6.6-54:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm14:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.2+esm24:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5+esm1
phpmyadmin
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
before 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, plus listed versions
4:4.9.1+dfsg1-24:4.9.2+dfsg1-14:4.9.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu14:4.9.5+dfsg1-2
4:4.9.5+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
phpMyAdmin
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.6.5.2-1.1
4.6.5.2-1.1

History

History
WhenChangedSources
2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
2026-11-02createdCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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